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If these MICs really are your bread and butter x86, then Clojure/JVM (and immutable FP in general) will be quite a capable environment - particularly as the cor
by calebmpeterson 15y ago
If these MICs really are your bread and butter x86, then Clojure/JVM (and immutable FP in general) will be quite a capable environment - particularly as the core count climbs...
- modeless 15y agoThey're x86 processors, but rather slow ones. The high FLOPS figures come from the custom vector instruction units, which are 4x as wide as SSE and much more flexible. You're going to need excellent SIMD support in your language to use this chip.
- palish 15y ago4x as wide as SIMD. Wow. (SIMD is four 32-bit floats wide, i.e. you can multiply four floats AAAA with four other floats BBBB in a single instruction = AB AB AB AB. So 4x that is 16 pairs of floats in a single instruction!)