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I'd like to see what instructions are available on the co-processors. It seems like it would be great for physical simulations and other embarrassingly parallel things. I guess there's some need for things in between regular CPUs and expensive computing grids. Offhand, Master's and Phd. candidates might have simulations to do that this would be useful for and other platforms would be overkill/too expensive.


I guess there's some need for things in between regular CPUs and expensive computing grids.

Like GPUs?


Yes GPU-like devices that consume 5 watts.


If you cut down a GPU to only 64 "cores" and only 700 MHz it may very well consume only 5 W. e.g. AMD Brazos/Kabini.


Come on, are you being difficult on purpose? How are you going to boot the graphics card? Access network or disk resources?


I'm pretty sure the Adapteva chip can't do that either; it requires a host processor just like a GPU does.


... which is on the board.


i'm sure it will perform effectively for more than just embarrassingly parallel problems, but a 2 gbit interconnect is a rather steep limitation. much lower than the few thousand we're used to with existing GPUs.




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