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CACM July 2020 - Domain Specific Hardware Accelerators

A domain-specific accelerator is a hardware computing engine that is specialized for a particular domain of applications. Accelerators have been designed for graphics, deep learning, simulation, bioinformatics, image processing, and many other tasks. Accelerators can offer orders of magnitude improvements in performance/cost and performance/W compared to general-purpose computers. A well-designed accelerator covers the broadest possible space of applications—accelerating a domain rather than a sing le application. The design of a domain-specific accelerator is really a form of parallel programming, but with a cost model very different from what most programmers use. In this video, William Dally discusses "Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators," a Contributed Article in the July 2020 Communications of the ACM.