Small-Scale Accelerators In Machine Learning: A Brief Overview

As machine learning and artificial intelligence pervade the computing environment, the drive for better hardware resources is increasing significantly. Although computational hardware is optimised to its best, it needs to be the perfect fit for ML applications. With a plethora of devices available in the market -- multi-core processors, large cloud-based databases -- it is often tough to choose them to serve the exact ML purpose. One such hardware component that has picked up popularity in recent times is the accelerator. The accelerators are a class of microprocessors which are designed specifically to serve AI and ML related tasks.