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“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!
What is the purpose of this project? I didn't get it. How will it be useful?
Does it need to be?
“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? :)
Can't wait for someone to build a DOOM that runs entirely on GPU!
A 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…
> I wonder how many out there seriously think we could ever completely rid ourselves of the CPU. It seems to be a rising sentiment. This sentiment is not a recent thing. Ever since GPGPU became a thing, there have been people who first hear about it, don't understand processor architectures and get excited about GPUs magically making everything faster. I vividly recall a discussion with some management type back in 2…
Have a CPU, GPU, FPGA, and other specific chips like Neural chips. All there with unified memory and somehow pipelining specific work loads to each chip optimally to be optimal.
I wasn't really aware people thought we would be running websites on GPUs.
Someone needs to implement LLVMPipe to target this isa, then one can run software OpenGL emulation and call it "hardware accelerated".
A 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…
I don't think we get rid of the CPU. But the relationship will be inverted. Instead of the CPU calling the GPU, it might be that the GPU becomes the central controller and builds programs and calls the CPU to execute tasks.