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I remember Transputers - they were very popular in Germany due to Parsytec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec). Other
by zwieback 13y ago
I remember Transputers - they were very popular in Germany due to Parsytec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec).
Other than for fun and learning - what are the advantages of a fabric vs. something like a GPU system? From my experience with micros it seems there's so much power lost in the peripherals that it's inefficient to use anything with a small number of cores for massively parallel systems.
- jacquesm 13y agoGPUs are not very good at problems that you can't model with SIMD, though they're getting better at such problems. Also, there is no isolation between the nodes, it's all one memory space (that's what triggered this to begin with), computing fabrics have security implications because the nodes are isolated from each other.