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Bold. In a different timeline they could have been the nvidia.

• kgwgk 2y ago
  “Parallel implementation of backpropagation neural networks on a heterogeneous array of transputers” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18255845/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18255845/
  • nextts 2y ago
    I like how it isn't laced with superlatives too. Unlike today's papers that sound like a (well educated) used car salesman.
• alexisread 2y ago
  Absolutely: https://www.transputer.net/tn/46/tn46.html https://www.transputer.net/tn/46/tn46.html Too bad the UK gov were so shortsighted, or that Atari, instead of making the ATW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation) should have simply used a T212 in the ST blitter socket as a coprocessor. That way people could have slowly gotten familiar with the arch :| People are building new hardware to run transputers though: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369254-pre-annoucement-atw8002-graphics-transputer-card-for-mega-st-and-vme/page/2/#comments https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369254-pre-annoucement-atw... so maybe this amazing code can be resurrected on real hardware! Edit: Found it. This is the paper on 3d parallel transforms: https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/611934/ITC_1992_92-0526.pdf https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/611934... Later transputers also had DSP instructions built-in.
  • rjsw 2y ago
    Later model STs had an expansion connector on the PCB, it wouldn't have needed to be instead of the blitter.
  • cmrdporcupine 2y ago
    The modern descendant of this stuff (intersecting group of people and ideas) is at https://www.xmos.com/ https://www.xmos.com/ The target is the embedded space now, though.