Talk:Domain-specific architecture

Review

Very good description on the topic of DSA that was missing from wikipedia! The article has examples on the currently available DSA both in the HPC world and in consumer-grade devices like the Pixel 4. Thetestguy (talk) 13:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

The article is well-written and understandable even for a non-technical audience. Super interesting topic! --Serie$dollaro (talk) 14:32, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Guidline for DSA design section

Hi there,

Thanks for your contribution in this informative an interesting topic.

I have a suggestion regarding the "Guideline for DSA design section". As this section is a suggestion of two scientists that are mentioned at the beginning of the paragraph, don't you think it is better to omit the sub-headings (as they are also so long in this case) and put them in the form of a numbered list? Nimarazmjoo (talk) 13:55, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review! I changed the subsections to a numbered list Fpeverelli (talk) 14:03, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

A citation is missing at the end of the first paragraph, I suggest adding a 'See also' and 'External links' section.--Serie$dollaro (talk) 14:29, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I added the missing citation and a See also section. As for external links, I think the further readings section provides the most reliable generalist source on the topic, and there are no websites that directly relate to it that I feel should be included Fpeverelli (talk) 14:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Observations and suggestions for improvements

The following observations and suggestions for improvements were collected, following an expert review of the article within the Science, Technology, Society and Wikipedia course at the Politecnico di Milano, in July 2023.

The History section seems to refer to domain-specific architecture as something recent and having "AI/ML" as the main target. However, Domain Specific Accelerators were in the past widely used. Similar, is the case for CGRA. In the past, CGRAs were used as a basic brick for the development of domain-specific accelerators. I think that this should be mentioned.

In addition to that, missing important references in the domain are the work from Bill Dally (2020 Communications of the ACM, https://doi.org/10.1145/3361682), and the more recent survey by Trevor Mudge, Radu Marculescu, and others (2023, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3563946).

In the field of DSA for ML/AI there could be also a reference and description for the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine https://www.cerebras.net/blog/introducing-the-cerebras-cs-1-the-industrys-fastest-artificial-intelligence-computer/

--Aandurro (talk) 10:09, 28 July 2023 (UTC)