master-thesis-presentation/slides/introduction.md

Introduction

Energy Demand of Applications

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• Total compute energy approaches world's energy production

  --> Drastic improvements in energy efficiency needed

SRC. „Decadal Plan for Semiconductors“, Januar 2021. https://www.src.org/about/decadal-plan/.

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Introduction

Memory Bound Workloads

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• AI applications become increasingly memory-bound

  --> Instead of bringing the data to the processing, bring the processing to the data

Ivo Bolsens. „Scalable AI Architectures for Edge and Cloud“, 2023.