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by TimID
2020-03-28, 22:23:33
Forum: forwardcom forum
Topic: Using Forwardcom as a GPU?
Replies: 11
Views: 18133

Re: Using Forwardcom as a GPU?

Yeah, I definitely think a forwardcom Xeon Phi would be a good proposition. All of the things that are good about the Xeon Phi plus better vector processing and no need for the ridiculous x86 front end. I'm also unable to get a clear picture of why Larrabee failed, other than it didn't perform well ...
by TimID
2020-03-24, 20:33:16
Forum: forwardcom forum
Topic: Using Forwardcom as a GPU?
Replies: 11
Views: 18133

Re: Using Forwardcom as a GPU?

It sounds like an interesting project, but I'm not sure it would be possible to make something competitive with dedicated GPUs. GPUs tend to get an order of magnitude more flops for the same part cost as a CPU by making an assumption about the type of work they will have to do. Whilst forwardcom has...
by TimID
2018-12-15, 22:15:34
Forum: forwardcom forum
Topic: Handling paging without a page system
Replies: 3
Views: 11659

Handling paging without a page system

Hi all, apologies if this has been covered somewhere but I couldn't see it anywhere in the manual or on the forum. How would forwardcom handle paging to disk if the system runs out of memory given that it doesn't use pages? Would the operating system have to edit the table of memory blocks for the p...