Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!novia!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <51CDFEB3.509@bitblocks.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:22:59 -0700 From: Bakul Shah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/22.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.arch.fpga Subject: Re: New soft processor core paper publisher? References: <4205b3b0-b16f-41d2-b322-2567c99a2060@googlegroups.com> <2d8b1141-56df-4302-b9a6-9fba50b319f1@googlegroups.com> <78e9d514-f501-494d-942c-38d51e8a2f1d@googlegroups.com> <1vSxt.75699$Vq3.26601@fx05.am4> <51C8C23A.10904@bitblocks.com> <51C8CF7B.2090106@bitblocks.com> <_uKdnUYISN4pz1DMnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@giganews.com> <51CDEA1A.8050706@bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2013 21:22:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: bbbdebab.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=]23\4He1FXmbL]PFGbQ>Rim4K\QM1CV^`1OYf0H`?;Xa=CJ;NP2To0bSlSKhVo7F[n`40C?MJ?KCd X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.fpga:4975 On 6/28/13 2:04 PM, Tom Gardner wrote: > On 28/06/13 20:55, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> Have you looked at Tilera's TILEpro64 or Adapteva's Epiphany >> 64 core processors? > > No I haven't. FYI the epiphany III processor is used in the $99 parallela "supercomputer". Should be available by August end according to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts > What is more interestingly tractable are "embarrassingly > parallel" problems (e.g. massive event processing systems), > and completely new approaches (currently typified by > big data and map-reduce, but that's just the beginning). And yet these run on traditional computers. Parallelism is at the node level.