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> Someone has estimations about effort estimation on number of people and required time for bootstraping this project A small team of systems programmers for m
by f_devd 3y ago
> Someone has estimations about effort estimation on number of people and required time for bootstraping this project
A small team of systems programmers for months, or a dedicated teenager a week. More seriously it highly depends on how they decided to implement it, if it's a custom instruction set extension it could be relatively easy
- wslh 3y agoLove your two alternatives because it is the typical project that requires passion and drive.
- adrian_b 3y agoIt is not an ISA extension. It is a separate ML/AI accelerator with a VLIW architecture. https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/xdna.html https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/xdna.html XDNA is documented by AMD, but I have not read the documents, so I do not know how much work would be to make a compiler and other tools for it. https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/ https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/
- f_devd 3y agoHmm looking at the architecture it seems like it would be though to create performant tooling quickly (especially if it needs reverse engineering), the VLIW/RISC ISA along with a CUDA-like threading model, and the tensor-flow (pun intended) for efficient cascading of neighboring AIE. On the other hand this arch does give it a very high ceiling so I get why they would go for it.