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As applications such as Apple Siri, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, and Amazon Echo continue to gain traction, web-service companies are adopting large deep neural networks (DNN) for machine learning challenges such as image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, among others. A number of open questions arise as to the design of a server platform specialized for DNN and how modern warehouse scale computers (WSCs) should be outfitted to provide DNN as a service for these applications.
Hauswald et al. (Tue,) studied this question.