Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:43:00 -0500 From: Chris Hinsley Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0100 Message-ID: <2012100820430026080-chrishinsley@gmailcom> References: <76fe0697-97b3-4844-9b18-b2b86e028d8c@googlegroups.com> <971ca4fc-0ec5-457b-b941-c268c2cc48fe@z8g2000yql.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Pk7hA2wEPFiGH6E++5yPZhtsMBiR0fmWJrHAJl7QshHV+zs6wPFZ/WVmj1SOIo+zsvDHfhmul4l0Yls!GjW5rhXFqxwn5k8lUbgER0kfbIEUDUFM2ro982G+AnLHuwfFcQ/Z/1sp+PXgWc343u8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1946 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:16062 On 2012-10-08 08:38:34 +0000, Mark Wills said: > "The secret sauce in the Epiphany design is the memory architecture, > which allows any core to access the SRAM of any other core on the die. > This SRAM is mapped as a single address space across the cores, > greatly simplifying memory management. Each core has a direct memory > access (DMA) unit that can prefetch data from external flash memory." > > Oh. That is seriously nice. > > See here: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/07/adapteva_epiphany_parallel_computing_kickstarter/ > The hardware and SDK refernce manuals are avaiable for download now BTW. Check the kickstarter announcement, it has the links to download. Wish it had a bit more local memory, but yep, it looks quite nice. Chris