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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by rbanffy on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:00PM (#21445094)
I have some memories of the Cell processor, none of them fond. That beast was the hardest thing to program I ever saw. It made the first generation Xeon Phi's look like a dream.
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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by nullc on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:46PM (#21448040)
I think it just depended on what you were doing on it, I 'ported' the CELT (Opus predecessor) to it in like.. an afternoon.
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