Really enjoyed a recent Architecht Show podcast interview about co-design of hardware and software to improve task performance. Feels like computing is getting close to “software defined everything,” which provides lots of opportunity to build optimized cross-layer stacks.
In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, Hillery Hunter—IBM Fellow and director of the Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure group at IBM Research—speaks about the state of the art in deep learning systems design. She discusses some record-breaking results that IBM recently achieved in distributed deep learning; ideal use cases for state-of-the-art image recognition; and the pros, cons and advancements in everything from GPUs to cloud-specific hardware such as Google’s TPUs.
Hillery Hunter comes through as a really sharp cookie, while cleanly and clearly expressing the impact of her team’s results.