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From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Faster cpus at any cost
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:12:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6650bebe-ebb3-3ee4-807c-96e9a3131f23@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1117f6b1a451ac858ba5cd8c1e84280@quintile.net>

On 2018-06-29 4:51 AM, Steve Simon wrote:
> I know this is a dangerous game to play, but what of the future?
> 
> I am intrigued by the idea of true optical computers,
> perhaps the $10M super-computer will return?
> 
> GPUs have definitely taken over in some areas - even where
> SIMD would not seem a good fit. My previous employer does motion
> estimation of realtime video and has moved from custom electronics
> and FPGAs to using off the shelf GPUs in PCs.

On this topic, 10 years old, but the Kogge whitepaper on "Exascale
Computing" might be of interest:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242366160_ExaScale_Computing_Study_Technology_Challenges_in_Achieving_Exascale_Systems

--T

> 
> -Steve
> 
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-29 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1530237601.20140.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-29  8:51 ` Steve Simon
2018-06-29 17:14   ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-29 18:12   ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-06-29 18:13   ` Perry E. Metzger

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