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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:59PM (#16894198)
This is more or less what I'm talking about. I wonder what possibilities lie with using the huge numerical computation available on a GPU applied to predictive parts of a CPU, such as memory prefetch prediction, branch prediction, etc.

Not totally dissimilar to the thinking behind NetBurst which seemed to be all about having a deep pipeline and keeping it fed with quality predictions.

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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by joe_the_user on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:47PM (#16894460)
I'm not sure if your idea in particular is possible but who knows. There may be fundamental limits to speeding up computation based speculative look-ahead not matter how many parallel tracks you have and it may run into memory through-put issues.

But take a look at the MOG code and see what you can do.

Check out H. Dietz' stuff. Links above.

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