Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor

Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by vvanders on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:37PM (#12647618)

Cool, stuff for sure.

I didn't see it addressed in the paper, how does this compare WRT discrete DSP chips? Are you targeting ease of programming instead of raw FMAD/etc?

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Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by adapteva on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:59PM (#12649040)

In modern DSP chips programmers have to contend with: VLIW, SIMD, pipelines, caches, and multicore.

In Epiphany, the programmers are challenged by the manycore and an SRAM size cliff (so 0 or 1 in terms of pain).

It depends...but I personally prefer having one big dragon to slay rather than 10 little ones.

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Re:Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor by vvanders on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:10PM (#12649100)

Thanks, sounds like lots of parallels(har har) to the SPUs on the PS3 which got a bad rep but I thought where great if you went in with the right approach.

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