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Re:TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs by kotselidis on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:43AM (#22536402)
It is not possible to run the entire VM due to lack of OS support for some features required. However, even you could run all of it, it would not yield the best performance due to control flow divergence.

We did some preliminary work on executing some parts of the interpreter on a GPU this year: https://github.com/jjfumero/jjfumero.github.io/blob/master/f...

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Re:TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs by rbanffy on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:54AM (#22544692)
The only way something like this would work would be the OS treating the heterogeneous compute resources as "first-class citizens" and part of the normal OS scheduling and resource management. I don't think any production OS today does that.

And just after I write it, an article on AMD's work on ROCm pops up.

Exciting times.

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