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The following processor, if it can properly parallelize 3D Math tasks (or if it could be adapted to do so): "World’s First 1k-Processor Chip, Powered by a Sing

The following processor, if it can properly parallelize 3D Math tasks (or if it could be adapted to do so): "World’s First 1k-Processor Chip, Powered by a Single AA Battery (2016)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26140957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26140957 ...Might make a good candidate for a future GPU! ...As might any massively-parallel "CPU" architecture, for example, the Adapteva Parallella: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva >"The 16-core Parallella has roughly 5.0 GFLOPs/W, and the 64-core Epiphany-IV made with 28 nm estimated as 50 GFLOPs/W (single-precision),[27] and 32-board system based on them has 15 GFLOPS/W.[28] For comparison, top GPUs from AMD and Nvidia reached 10 GFLOPs/W for single-precision in 2009–2011 timeframe.[29]" In other words, whenever you hear about a CPU with a "massive amount of cores" -- think "could make a great GPU", or "could make a great GPU with the right adjustments" -- from this point forward! In other words, any massively parallel multi-core CPU architecture -- becomes or can become -- a candidate architecture to become a GPU -- with further changes/optimizations...

ebcode 6y ago
> In other words, whenever you hear about a CPU with a "massive amount of cores" -- think "could make a great GPU", or "could make a great GPU with the right adjustments" -- from this point forward! Before doing that, though, they should research the difference between SIMD and MIMD. Multi-core CPUs are generally MIMD, and GPUs are always SIMD†. † If someone knows of a MIMD GPU architecture, please share!
- ebcode 6y ago
  -- researching this a bit now, the one thing I've found is the Intel Larrabee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture), cancelled and transmogrified into the xeon phi. still haven't found a consumer graphics card with a MIMD architecture. I'm guessing there might be more on-going research in this area with the GPGPU on FPGA communities.

ebcode 6y ago

> In other words, whenever you hear about a CPU with a "massive amount of cores" -- think "could make a great GPU", or "could make a great GPU with the right adjustments" -- from this point forward! Before doing that, though, they should research the difference between SIMD and MIMD. Multi-core CPUs are generally MIMD, and GPUs are always SIMD†. † If someone knows of a MIMD GPU architecture, please share!

ebcode 6y ago
-- researching this a bit now, the one thing I've found is the Intel Larrabee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture), cancelled and transmogrified into the xeon phi. still haven't found a consumer graphics card with a MIMD architecture. I'm guessing there might be more on-going research in this area with the GPGPU on FPGA communities.