Few words about future of tech & NPUs? What do you know? What do you think?

Is NPU going to be included into R@h? What about some other project?

Will it be limited to CPU-NPU (like intel or AMD) or will it include some other NPU devices? Such as Googles Tensor & Coral TPU/NPU? Falcon cards?

Lets start the discussion here...

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BOINC doesn't support yet, it looks like it will be included in the next version.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/5361

Few words about future of tech & NPUs? What do you know? What do you think?

Is NPU going to be included into R@h? What about some other project?

I don't know if NPU will be useful for Rosetta@Home, 'cause NPU are doing very specific calculations.
NPU uses, at most, matrix (FP8/FP16 or INT8) operations and Rosetta uses, for what i know, FP32 (or FP64)
If it is correct, to "adapt" R@H to an NPU cpu requests a deep re-thinking (and re-writing) of the code.
And, in these years, is almost impossible for this project.

Maybe project like Axiom will benefit from NPU

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