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FYI, Intel tried that with the aborted "Larrabee" project, so not a stupid question at all. It ended up being a too hard problem to solve. They reused the techn
by Aissen 11y ago
FYI, Intel tried that with the aborted "Larrabee" project, so not a stupid question at all. It ended up being a too hard problem to solve. They reused the technology to make the Xeon Phi coprocessors which are basically PCIE computing "accelerators"; for a class of workload, and if you're willing to rewrite your code, they are faster and more power efficient than GPUs.
Although there are many companies trying to crack this many-core problem (Kalray, AppliedMicro, Adapteva, Cavium, Tilera), I'm not aware of any "successful" solution.
- pjmlp 11y agoI was at GDCE when Larrabee was presented in the technical session about programming for it. Of course, it was mostly slideware but we were given the promises that it would change computing as we know it, yeah right. They really need to improve their GPU skills.