Approximate Computing: Promise or Hype?

Schedule

25 April	Introduction Session
2 May	Green: A Framework for Supporting Energy-conscious Programming Using Controlled Approximation PLDI’10 Managing Performance vs. Accuracy Trade-offs with Loop Perforation FSE’11
9 May	NRG-Loops: Adjusting Power from within Applications CGO’16 Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems SenSys’07
16 May	No class, holiday
23 May	EnerJ: Approximate Data Types for Safe and General Low-power Computation PLDI'11 Precimonious: Tuning Assistant for Floating-point Precision SC’13
30 May	Approximate Storage in Solid-state Memories MICRO’13 Programming with Relaxed Synchronization RACES’12
6 Jun	An Experimental Survey of Energy Management Across the Stack OOPSLA’14 Project Information
13 Jun	Scalable Effort Hardware Design VLSI’14 Neural Acceleration for General-purpose Approximate Programs CACM’14
20 Jun	Monitoring and Debugging the Quality of Results in Approximate Programs ASPLOS’15 Chisel: Reliability- and Accuracy-Aware Optimization of Approximate Computational Kernels OOPSLA'14
27 Jun	Approximate Computation with Outlier Detection in Topaz OOPSLA’15
4 Jul - 25 Jul	Projects