DNNs are ubiquitous datacenter workloads, requiring orders of magnitude more computing power from servers than traditional workloads. As such, datacenter operators are forced to adopt domain-specific accelerators that employ halfprecision floating-point (FP) numeric representations to improve arithmetic density. Unfortunately, even these representations are not dense enough, and are, therefore,...

The ability to grasp objects is an essential skill that enables many robotic manipulation tasks. Recent works have studied point cloud-based methods for object grasping by starting from simulated datasets and shown promising performance in real-world scenarios. Nevertheless, of them still rely on ad-hoc geometric heuristics generate candidates, which fail generalize with significantly different...

Microsoft Point to Point Encryption (MPPE) is a means of representing PPP packets in an encrypted form. MPPE uses the RSA RC4 algorithm to provide data confidentiality. The length of the session key to be used for initializing encryption tables can be negotiated. MPPE currently supports 40-bit, 56-bit and 128-bit session keys. MPPE session keys are changed frequently; the exact frequency depend...

We present an end-to-end approach to generalize the classical theory of R-D optimized mode selection for point-to-point video communication. We introduce a. notion of global distortion by taking into consideration of both the path characteristics and the receiver behavior, in addition to the source behavior. We derive, for the first time, a set of accurate global distortion metrics for any pack...

This paper presents a new approach to modeling end-toend performance for IP networks. Unlike earlier models, in which end stations generate traffic at a constant rate, the work discussed here takes the adaptive behaviour of TCP/IP into account. The approach is based on a fixed point method which determines packet loss, link utilization and TCP throughput across the network. Results are presente...