A Scalable, Heterogeneous Hardware Platform for Accelerated AIoT based on Microservers

Performance and energy efficiency are key aspects of next-generation AIoT\ua0hardware. This chapter presents a scalable, heterogeneous hardware platform for accelerated AIoT based on microserver technology. It integrates several\ua0accelerator platforms based on technologies like CPUs, embedded GPUs,\ua0FPGAs, or specialized ASICs, supporting the full range of the cloud−edgeIoT continuum. The modular microserver approach enables the integrationof different, heterogeneous accelerators into one platform. Benchmarking\ua0the various accelerators takes performance, energy efficiency, and accuracy\ua0into account. The results provide a solid overview of available acceleratorsolutions and guide hardware selection for AIoT applications from the far\ua0edge to the cloud