Why “PIM” is being discussed
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https://dblp.org/pid/m/OnurMutlu.html (search for "processing") also has a ton of great lectures on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/resu…
by genxy · Aug 31, 2026
It's funny how the article just assumes PIM be for computing weights of a model without even mentioning it in the introduction.
by emsign · Aug 31, 2026
Bro, I’m not following. Can you elaborate? - concretely PIM is cope. And the argument that this is bad because rowhammer and how a wider bus would be better.
by random3 · Aug 30, 2026
Is there a single reason why we can't just "distribute" the online softmax? Each die-attached PIM accelerator computes online softmax for its own KVs. Then the central unit gath…
by ACCount37 · Aug 30, 2026
> SSDs as Memory They've implemented mmap() in hardware. What a time to be alive?! nb: Related discussion on Samsung's PIM from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com…
by woadwarrior01 · Aug 30, 2026
How do you scale past 16 channels though? 16 channels give you around 614 GB/s, while PIM can do that per chip, so it can achieve 58TB/s.
by zerd · Aug 30, 2026
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