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Re:Popcorn Linux by marcosdumay on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:46PM (#23061342)
Some ISAs can be way more effective at some parts of the problem than others, while still not being an optimum for the entire problem.

That's why your computer has a GPU.

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Re:Popcorn Linux by ngcc_hk on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:19AM (#23064513)
Can it run on a gpu so to abstract always cuda
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Re:Popcorn Linux by marcosdumay on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:57PM (#23071169)
I imagine it can't (that would be way too good, everybody would be using it already). I also don't think there are many examples of supercomputers with diverse ISAs today.

But a system like this is a requisite for non-uniform computers to exist. Thus it must exist without the other, at least for a while.

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