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Does it only bug me that with the addition of cold storage on the card, GPUs scream of poor design? If I was rewriting the same-ish REST helper on every micro-
by FatalBaboon 10y ago
Does it only bug me that with the addition of cold storage on the card, GPUs scream of poor design?
If I was rewriting the same-ish REST helper on every micro-service of a project, I would immediately think of refactoring and yet GPUs now have CPU/RAM/Disk.
Is the future GPU-only or are we in dire need of a better way to use existing PC components from GPUs?
- Athas 10y agoI don't understand. What does hardware design have to do with refactoring, usually a software term? The addition of the SSD is motivated by basic physics, which creates the need for computational units and storage units to be close together. (The alternative would be a non-von Neumann model without this compute-storage distinction, but that's not so easy.)
- buzzybee 10y agoIt just means the Sutherland/Meyer Wheel of Reincarnation is in full effect.
- Sanddancer 10y agoLots of high end components has onboard RAM and flash. Big SAS cards have flash to store state in case of a power outage, there are realtime ethernet cards that control the entire ip stack themselves, etc. When you're working with huge datasets, it just makes sense to have data locality.