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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by deepnotderp on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:19AM (#16070908)
Yay for asynchronous :D

It's honestly criminal how little attention async gets.

But absolutely disagree on massively parallel processors. What do you think your GPUs, TPUs/DPUs not to mention Tilera types are?

Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by imglorp on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:50AM (#16071795)
GPU, TPU, DPU, etc are not general purpose compute: they are highly specialized for a certain tasks. Not familiar with Tilera, but it looks like up to 100 cores? That's not what I mean by massive either.

CM was massively parallel: 64,000 general purpose processors. I don't think we adequately explored its attributes. I bet we could make a decent emulation of a CM and its support tools now.