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
>
>
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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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