Overview
AutoPiM project is a 5-year project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is a unique project where the work will be done in collaboration with top a research team in Israel. The goal of this project is to develop and design novel energy-efficient accelerators based on processing-in-memory (PiM) technology, for Deep-Learning (DL) applications to be applied in autonomous vehicles
Project description
The broad research goal for this project is to find efficient DL implementations for autonomous vehicles in the post-Moore and post-Dennard world. More specifically, we intend to study, develop, and design combined near- and in-data processing dual-PiM architectures, as well as a tool to map the DL models to the hardware in order to exploit the advantages of the dual approach to achieve low latency, power and cost for mobile DL. As part of the collaboration work, the research team at Chalmers will mostly focus on the development of novel architectures for the accelerator while the research team at Bar-Ilan University (Israel) will mostly focus on the novel memory technology. A prototype for this chip is planned to be produced by the end of the project.
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Information about the division and the department
At Chalmers, this particular part of the project will be run in the Division of Computer Networks and Systems within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Within the Division we have four faculty members, four postdocs and eleven PhD students who are engaged in research in computer architecture. The funding for the group comes mostly from national and EU projects. The faculty members have been awarded prestigious grants for their research such as the ERC advanced grant and also participate in top EU projects such as the European Processor Initiative (EPI) and other EuroHPC projects. The results of the research work are published in highly-ranked conferences and journals in the field. In this environment we are currently building up a new research focusing on the design of advanced Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) or accelerators. This announcement is for a position within this group.
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