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Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by dnautics on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:54PM (#12647199)
You still need to recompile code for the new architecture, and taking full advantage of it wisely is not easy... but may be worth it in many use cases. Part of the problem is that it's not 100% clear which use cases these are and how to market it. Probably unit calculation per watt is the most likely performance advantage, but it's still amazingly hard to sell people on that sometimes
Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by adapteva on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:41PM (#12648936)
Some parallel algorithms will scale to bigger (more parallel) chips the way binary programs got more performance with clock higher frequencies. That's the holy grail..