Toward better CPU idle-time predictions [LWN.net]

Toward better CPU idle-time predictions

Posted Oct 31, 2014 11:31 UTC (Fri) by ras (subscriber, #33059)
Parent article: Toward better CPU idle-time predictions

Another day, another algorithm for predicting the future based on past events.

Surely we would be better off collecting a whole pile of data and feeding it to a neural network.

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Toward better CPU idle-time predictions

Posted Oct 31, 2014 12:25 UTC (Fri) by mstone_ (subscriber, #66309) [Link] (1 responses)

That'll certainly save power. :)

Toward better CPU idle-time predictions

Posted Oct 31, 2014 17:48 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It might actually do so[1]:

> They found that TrueNorth cut energy use by 176,000-fold compared to a traditional processor and by a factor of over 700 compared to specialized hardware designed to host neural networks.

[1]http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/ibm-researchers-ma...