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Really looking forward to someone who can comment on this to break it down for those of us who want to know but can't even. :)
by codezero 7y ago
Really looking forward to someone who can comment on this to break it down for those of us who want to know but can't even. :)
- dragontamer 7y agoThe early 80s and 90s "vector supercomputers" serve as the basis of modern GPUs. A GPU-programmer can immediately see the similarity of the assembly language here, with modern GPU-assembly languages (AMD RDNA GPUs or NVidia Turing GPUs). Just as a modern programmer learns about DEC PDP-11 and its influence on the C-programming language, a modern GPU programmer could look at these Cray-notes and learn about the influence of that machine onto the modern GPU. ------------ The SIMD-principles on this Cray have found their way to normal CPUs, in the form of AVX-commands or AVX512.