How is this different than the (various?) efforts back then to build a machine based on the Intel i860? Didn’t work, although people gave it a good try.
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
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Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#62A fun experiment but I wonder how many out there seriously think we could ever completely rid ourselves of the CPU. It seems to be a rising sentiment. The cost of communicating information through space is dealt with in fundamentally different ways here. On the CPU it is addressed directly. The actual latency is minimized as much as possible, usually by predicting the future in various ways and keeping the spatial ex…
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Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#63Every clueless person who suggest that we move to GPUs entirely have zero idea how things work and basically are suggesting using lambos to plow fields and tractors to race in nascar
Bad comparison. Lambos are regularly plowing fields and they're quite good at it.
https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu/
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#64Oh these brave new ways to paraphrase the good old "fuck fuel economy"...
Thank you, Mr. Do-because-I-can!
Yours truly,
- GPU company CEO,
- Electric company CEO.
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#65Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#66“A CPU that runs entirely on the GPU” I imagine a carefully crafted set of programming primitives used to build up the abstraction of a CPU… “Every ALU operation is a trained neural network.” Oh… oh. Fun. Just not the type of “interesting” I was hoping for.
Please tell me what you had in mind so I can try something different!
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#67Hey everyone thank you taking a look at my project. This was purely just a “can I do it” type deal, but ultimately my goal is to make a running OS purely on GPU, or one composed of learned systems.
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#68“A CPU that runs entirely on the GPU” I imagine a carefully crafted set of programming primitives used to build up the abstraction of a CPU… “Every ALU operation is a trained neural network.” Oh… oh. Fun. Just not the type of “interesting” I was hoping for.
Please tell me what you had in mind so I can try something different!
Begin reimplementing a subleq/muxleq VM with GPU primitive commands:
https://github.com/howerj/muxleq (it has both, muxleq (multiplexed subleq, which is the same but mux'ing instructions being much faster) and subleq. As you can see the implementation it's trivial. Once it's compiled, you can run eforth, altough I run a tweked one with floats and some beter commands, edit muxleq.fth, set the float to 1 in that file with this example:
1 constant opt.float
1 constant opt.control
./muxleq ./muxleq.dec new.dec
./muxleq new.dec
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#69Why do we call them GPUs these days? Most GPUs, sitting in racks in datacenters, aren't "processing graphics" anyhow.
VPU. Vector/Video Processing Unit.
Re: A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
#70“A CPU that runs entirely on the GPU” I imagine a carefully crafted set of programming primitives used to build up the abstraction of a CPU… “Every ALU operation is a trained neural network.” Oh… oh. Fun. Just not the type of “interesting” I was hoping for.
Is it emulating a Pentium processor? :)