WEEK 16: Domain-Specific Computer Architectures

Long battery life

From the key features, a smartphone must be small in size, have a very high processing performance, and ___________.

Six

The Apple A15 Bionic SoC, the iPhone 13 Pro Max processor, has how many cores?

Blizzard

The two cores of the Apple A15 Bionic SoC were named Avalanche. What is the name of the remaining cores?

Drain

Running all the cores of a processor simultaneously can result in power __________.

Apple Neural Engine

The neural network processor of the Apple A15 Bionic SoC is referred to as ____________.

Perception

In the Ryzen 9 5950X, what type of machine learning is utilized by the branch prediction unit to enhance prediction accuracy?

Raytracing

What approach does the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU use to produce more visually realistic images?

Machine Vision

The term for computer systems that allow machines to understand visual information from images or videos.

WSC hardware

What type of computer system is optimized for internet service performance?

Natural Language Processing

NLP stands for __________.

False: Headless mode

True or False: Rack-mounted servers typically operate in headlock mode.

Crawling

What is the process by which search engines discover new content on the web?

True

True or False: Search engines keep their database up-to-date to match the latest web content.

High performance

What does WSC hardware ensure for internet services?

True

True or False: To train neural networks, one of the most common and time-consuming tasks is to multiply large matrices.

bfloat16

What specialized floating-point format that Intel recommend for deep learning tasks that was compared to mantissa?

Turned off completely

What happens to unused servers in an efficient WSC?

Servers and networking devices

What are the two primary consumers of electricity in a WSC?

Best response time

What is the goal of maintaining a substantial subset of index data in an in-memory database?

Tensor

What is the data type used in ANN processing in the Nervana architecture?