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Given this is rewinding to the 1970s, I expected a mention of CSP [0], or Transputers [1], or systolic arrays [2], or Connection Machines [3], or... The history
by wrs 1y ago
Given this is rewinding to the 1970s, I expected a mention of CSP [0], or Transputers [1], or systolic arrays [2], or Connection Machines [3], or... The history wasn't quite as one-dimensional as this makes it seem.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
- lukeh 1y agoXMOS still very much alive. But CSP comes with its own set of challenges which ironically have force one back to using shared memory.
- woadwarrior01 1y agoAs are systolic arrays, see Google's TPUs.