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by gchadwick 11y ago
It is a common theme in computer architecture for someone to say, 'look I have an awesome new architecture all you need is a clever compiler to make it work'. None of them really pan out (other than in specific applications, you
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by gchadwick 11y ago
> Pretend the equity is worth zero or close to zero (which it almost always is) In a startup or private company yet to IPO sure. In an established, large, public company, RSUs, ESPP and whatever else you get is definitely going to delive
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by gchadwick 11y ago
Java's actually a lot older than that, 1995 I believe. Though I'm not sure when Java applets became available in browsers (certainly before 2005). It's a sobering thought that whilst (in my opinion) Java applets were a very
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by gchadwick 11y ago
It would be interesting to the see the same experiment repeated using an NVidia Tesla and an Intel Xenon Phi. They used AMD GPUs not targeted at HPC so it's unsurprising the integer path is not power efficient (desktop/mobile gra
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by gchadwick 11y ago
> Generally speaking they outperform GPUs by an order of magnitude in FLOPS/W*s [2] The paper you link to is measuring MSPS/W (mega samples per second) and the algorithm they are studying relies on fixed point. It uses built i
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by gchadwick 12y ago
I think one issue here is that to achieve the great gains in performance FPGAs can provide you do need to treat it like a proper HW design. C to RTL exists but to get the best out of it you're basically using C as a syntactic sugar fo