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I wonder what the clock network topology looks like on a chip with 256 cores.
by jrowley 10y ago
I wonder what the clock network topology looks like on a chip with 256 cores.
- jacquesm 10y agoIf they're implementing neural nets they don't necessarily need to do so cycle synchronously. Think of it as a specialized cluster on a chip.
- tonmoy 10y agoI think the commenter is talking about the KnuPath chip. >And it (each core) will run C++ software, something that is already very popular. Programmers can program each one of the cores with a different algorithm to run simultaneously Running C++ almost certainly has to be done synchronously
- jacquesm 10y agohttps://www.knupath.com/products/hermosa-processors/ https://www.knupath.com/products/hermosa-processors/ Is a diagram of that chip. You don't actually run 'C++ software', you run a binary and if you have a cluster on a chip you are perfectly capable of running each node in the cluster on its own clock net, with high speed links connecting the nodes.