With its new Maverick-2 accelerator, built on what the company calls an Intelligent Compute Architecture, NextSilicon is betting on a long-pursued but rarely realized approach to accelerating HPC and data center workloads, known as dataflow computing. A dataflow architecture is designed such that the data itself, not instruction sequences, drives computation. The company believes it’s finally solved the twin barriers that kept dataflow architectures confined to research labs: programmability and practicality.
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