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Adapteva and Globalfoundries Begin to Sample 64-Core 28nm Microprocessor.

Started by: user99 | Date 09/04/12 01:49:49 PM
Comments: 8 | Last Comment:  09/06/12 01:38:31 PM

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What instruction set? If NEON is supported it could be the next killer GPU platform. 800 GFLOPS is Radeon 7750 territory which eats about 50W.
1 0 [Posted by: user99  | Date: 09/04/12 01:49:49 PM]
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I misread it 800 MHz not 800 GFLOPS. So not more than 3x power efficiency gain.
0 0 [Posted by: user99  | Date: 09/05/12 10:14:39 AM]
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It's not ARM, it uses their own instruction set.

And it's not 800 GFLOPS, it's 100 GFLOPS (peak/theoretical)

And no, it's not good as GPU. GPU needs lots of dedicated HW this chip does not have.
2 0 [Posted by: hkultala  | Date: 09/04/12 02:59:27 PM]
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Mix in MIPS Proaptive design with icubecorp opu design in this and you have super architecture that kills every thing else by far.
Hsa cud by dead before it even start!?
The only problem is software. It's final time to begin porting Dragonfly BSD to MIPS ISA.
1 0 [Posted by: Zola  | Date: 09/05/12 01:04:35 AM]
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if that is 64 cores compatible with Linux i would say INTEL and AMD would be in their chairs shaking the fleas out in seconds. if it is not Linux compatible i do not see a need for it. unless INTEL and AMD CREATE A PORT allowing a co-processor that tasks can be push over to it and just keep waiting for the result of the task.
0 0 [Posted by: idonotknow  | Date: 09/06/12 12:11:07 PM]
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Linux is compiled for every architecture! Bat real problem is that there is no useful end user software to employ 64 trades. I don't se use of running let say 64 instances of angry birds, bat for cloud micro servers this is the real deal!
For high parallel multiprocessing we need new solutions and my best bet is DragonFly BSD.
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