Re:The fall of datacenter software
by 082349872349872 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:21AM
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"Hardware Offload for All" reminds me of Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation[0]: just a few complete turns further along from 1960's Channel Programs[1][2].
[2] if a supercomputer is a device that turns compute-bound problems into io-bound, is a mainframe a device that turns io-bound problems into compute-bound?
Re:The fall of datacenter software
by js8 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:31AM
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Yeah, I was just thinking this is pretty much where modern IBM mainframes are. Lot of processing is already HW accelerated (I/O, crypto, compression, analytics, with z16 they are adding matrix multiplier for neural networks..).
[0] http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O#Channel_program_ex...
[2] if a supercomputer is a device that turns compute-bound problems into io-bound, is a mainframe a device that turns io-bound problems into compute-bound?