Meant to send this to the list as well... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 14, 2007 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Teraflop chip hints at the future To: Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Perhaps your thinking of Thomas Sterling's work on the MIND processor: "He is developing the MIND processor in memory architecture based on ParalleX, an advanced message-driven split-transaction computing model for scalable low-power fault-tolerant operation. In addition, he is developing an ultra lightweight supervisor runtime kernel in support of MIND and other fine grain architectures (like CELL) and the Agincourt parallel programming language for high efficiency through intrinsics in support of latency hiding and low overhead synchronization for both conventional and innovative parallel computer architectures." [ http://cacr.library.caltech.edu/104/01/IWIA_paper2005_Sterling.pdf ] [ http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~tron/ ] On 2/14/07, Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:17:59PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > that's not the point, of course - even a small CPU on each dram chip would > add up to a profoundly powerful system. for instance, take a pretty mundane > 2-socket, 16GB workstation today and notice it's got probably 128 separate > dram chips. imagine if each of those had even a small onchip processor A few years ago, there was at least one academic research project designing such CPU-in-RAM chips. Basically, a RAM chip with a smallish CPU in the corner. I can't remember the name of the project though! I think they actually fabbed some of their chips, although I don't recall for sure. But, I do remember that they were strictly working on SINGLE chips, one small CPU in one big RAM chip. At least at the time, they were not even considering how to link up many such chips to form a larger, multi-CPU machine. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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