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I'm certainly not going to argue against GPUs (or FPGAs) being used in scientific applications where performance is limited by floating point or vector performa
by iyulaev 14y ago
I'm certainly not going to argue against GPUs (or FPGAs) being used in scientific applications where performance is limited by floating point or vector performance. In certain scientific applications they can hand general-purpose CPUs their butts. I'm talking about ARM/RISC vs x86 CPUs for server applications.
- wmf 14y agoSorry, I went on a tangent there. The benefits of wimpy cores have certainly been elusive. Some good links http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/fr//pubs/archive/36448.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/trishulc/papers/low_power_cores.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/trishulc/paper... http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/MozillaCaseStudy.pdf http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/MozillaCaseStudy...