What’s Motivating the Matrix Engine Movement in Supercomputing?

[Katydid]

https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/02/whats-really-motivating-the-matrix-engine-movement-in-hpc/

[fulafel]

The article is pretty fluffy but the linked paper is interesting (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.14373.pdf) - comparing various ML targeted accelerator functionalities for HPC use. Systolic arrays are describes as "essentially GEMM engines".