As deep learning is becoming increasingly costly, both in terms of computational power and storage power, many efforts have been invested in finding ways to reduce that cost. Especially in the transformer architecture, where the attention matrix grows quadratically with the sequence length, and it is in fact a lower triangular matrix. The value of implementing a fast triangular matrix matrix operator is thus highlighted. Here we ...

Climate change and its effects require effective solutions to mitigate and avoid greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement translate global to Swiss mitigation targets, which bring in forests and timber as potential carbon sinks. However, it remains unclear how the sinks are best combined in a local context, especially when forest stands simultaneously fulfill multiple functions. As a result, there is a potential ...

Container-based sanitation (CBS) is a safely managed sanitation service designed for regions with limited sanitation and water infrastructure (WHO/UNICEF, 2018). CBS services replace unsafe sanitation practices in low- and middle-income regions and thus avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from uncontrolled degradation of excreta in the environment (Harroff et al., 2019). CBS provides waterless toilets with sealable containers that separate ...

Managing a modern computing platform’s power and clock infrastructure is an increasingly complex task. Failure to manage it correctly can result in grave consequences, up to the destruction of vital components. The increasing complexity, coupled with a desire for remote monitoring and management, has led to the task of managing power moving away from hard-wired solutions or simple hardware controllers, and on to baseboard management ...