Re:AMD and ARM's new CPU/GPU virtual ISA
by xpaulbettsx on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @07:07PM
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I think it's bigger than that - the idea that a GPU can execute syscalls is pretty crazy if you really buy into it (i.e. the entire OS is running using this heterogenous environment)
This is possible now [1]. FSA will (hopefully) make it significantly more efficient.
[1] http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=10...
Generally, I'd say this looks a lot like Clang but with better ways to express memory parralelism at least. No way to know at this point to what extent this will catch on, but it looks interesting.