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Why the Cell processor did not had success in AI/DL applications?
by lormayna 2y ago
Why the Cell processor did not had success in AI/DL applications?
- crote 2y agoIt was released a decade and a half too early for that, and at the time it was too weird and awkward to use to stay relevant once CUDA caught on.
- mass_and_energy 2y agoThis. CUDA handles a lot of overhead that the dev is responsible for on the Cell architecture. Makes you wonder what PS3 games would have looked like with CUDA-style abstraction of the Cell's capabilities
- sillywalk 2y agoI don't know the details of CUDA, so this may not be a good comparison, but there were efforts to abstract Cell's weirdness. It wasn't for the PS3, but for supercomputers. In particular the Roadrunner which had both Operteron and Cell processors. It was called CellFS and was based on the 9p protocol from Plan 9. It says there was 10-15% overhead, which may not have worked for PS3 games. https://fmt.ewi.utwente.nl/media/59.pdf https://fmt.ewi.utwente.nl/media/59.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/546-mirtchovski.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/546-mirtc... http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/IWP9/2007/11.highperf.lucho.pdf http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/IWP9/2007/11.highperf.lucho.pdf