Senior Research Fellow @EPCCed, University of Edinburgh. Interested in novel architectures, HPC, FPGAs, RISC-V, programming language design and LLVM & MLIR.
Edinburgh, UK
Joined August 2020
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Robots at #RISCVSummitChina powered by @spacemit_riscv #k3 . Very impressive, especially the four legged one which can do backflips
Great to be in Shenzhen this week #RISCVSummitChina . Workshop day off to a strong start, with @risc_v branded water bottles. Exhibition booths all being built ahead of tomorrow's grand opening
My @EPCCed PhD student Jake Davies' tutorial video giving a walkthrough of the @tenstorrent Tensix architecture, explaining how it works and how AI/ML workloads are mapped to it. Everything he wished he knew when he started working with the hardware! youtu.be/WcljPiCl5eM?si=dyDS…
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TEAS is a new AI benchmark that maps the true cost, performance & trade-offs of agentic AI across diverse hardware. Developed by University of Edinburgh, EPCC & Imperial College London, TEAS shifts the industry focus towards a hardware suitability map. edin.ac/4yisw3E
ALT Logo showing three stylized tea glasses above a green rule, the large word TEAS to the right, and the tagline Tracking Evolving AI and Systems beneath a thin green line.
Great talk by Dan Schechter about @NextSilicon 's use of @risc_v at #PPAM #RISCV workshop. Really interesting to hear updates about Arbel CPU, and a few more technical details showing the serious capability it will provide, exciting for #hpc
Lots of interesting comparison results published across hardware, with a whole load more to be published in the coming months!
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We're tracking agentic workflows on emerging hardware!
Developing next-generation accelerators requires benchmarking them on realistic and agentic AI workloads.
With @ARIA_research's Scaling Compute programme, we are releasing TEAS 🍵, serving 5 models (4B to ~1T total) on 9 accelerators for 6 workloads.
teasbench.com/
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TEAS 🍵 reports cost, accuracy, performance (both user experience and system output), and energy estimates. Accuracy confirms run validity and can reveal available trade-offs.
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We hope TEAS 🍵 helps hardware teams in Britain and around the world scale compute more efficiently. Built at @EdinburghUni, @EPCCed, and @imperialcollege.
Open NVIDIA pipeline, with AMD and Tenstorrent to follow: github.com/TEAS-project/TEAS…
It's been a lot of fun working with @PontiEdoardo , @luo_mai , @adrianjhpc and many others developing this benchmarking suite across next-generation architectures for agentic AI workloads
Developing next-generation accelerators requires benchmarking them on realistic and agentic AI workloads.
With @ARIA_research's Scaling Compute programme, we are releasing TEAS 🍵, serving 5 models (4B to ~1T total) on 9 accelerators for 6 workloads.
teasbench.com/
Nick Brown retweeted
Developing next-generation accelerators requires benchmarking them on realistic and agentic AI workloads.
With @ARIA_research's Scaling Compute programme, we are releasing TEAS 🍵, serving 5 models (4B to ~1T total) on 9 accelerators for 6 workloads.
teasbench.com/
"IEEE 754 isn't fit for purpose and deserves to be replaced" John Gustafson kicks off day two at #PPAM describing the limitations of floating point and how he designed posits, and b-posits, to address those issues across scientific computing and ML. Fascinating talk
Great first day at #PPAM, had lots of fun in Poznań running on PCSS's quantum computer as part of their quantum tutorial
One of my PhD students Rich Neale has been exploring the @risc_v #ETSoC1 now part of @AIFoundryorg @Ainekk0 for #HPC. Some impressive performance and energy numbers given its age, looking forward to seeing the follow-on being developed at the moment!
Just can't express in words how excited I am about research that one of our long standing @AIFoundryorg community members Rich is doing with @EPCCed
Here's a teaser:
P.S. also, still amazed that ET-SoC-1 that was taped out ~5 years ago still holds its own in 2026
Very well done David! It was a pleasure to be at @BSC_CNS last week and examine you on this, you have done some really impressive work around optimising task based models for #HPC and enabling disparate runtimes to cooperate and share resources
🎆 We have a new BSC #PhD!
David Álvarez Robert, from the System Tools and Advanced Runtimes (STAR) group, has successfully defended his #PhDThesis!
💪 Well done, David! Good luck in your career ahead!
#BSCTalent
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🇨🇳 RISC-V Summit China is back!
From October 18-20, the global RISC-V community will gather at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center for one of the largest RISC-V ecosystem events of the year.
Join industry leaders, developers, researchers, and innovators from around the world for three days of technical sessions, ecosystem updates, networking, and the latest breakthroughs driving the future of open computing.
Save the date and stay tuned for registration, speaker announcements, and more.
#RISCV #RISCVSummitChina #RISCVEverywhere
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#CONTINENTS project ran a mini-symposium at #pasc26 exploring #ai and #hpc. Speakers @NickBrownHPC , @NCAR_Science Monica Morrison and @MetOffice_Sci Ben Shipway described their activities and more widely the ethical and sustainability challenges of #ai
