3 ms·
Modern CPUs have multiple cores so they are really four cars bolted together. Why not bolt a car and a truck together and let them share memory (he says complet
by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Modern CPUs have multiple cores so they are really four cars bolted together. Why not bolt a car and a truck together and let them share memory (he says completely ruining the metaphor).
Graphics cards are becoming full fledged computers, a sibling poster mentioned AMD adding an interface for SSds to their cards. So why have the big x86 multi core system if all it does is feed data to the symbiotic computer that is the gpu and give us a shell prompt?
I guess I just answered my question. Gpus are symbiots because they don't run Linux. But I would like to see one that does, whatever that would look like.
- detaro 10y agoThat would probably look (roughly) like Intel Xeon Phi, which according to some was started as a GPU project. (they are also co-processors, but you can connect to one and log into a Linux running on it) I'm not sure why you'd totally want to get rid of a general-purpose CPU to run Linux, set up data etc and keep the GPU part simpler (and fast) once you've given them equal memory access.