Eugen Leitl wrote: > http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/29/look-100-core-tilera-gx/ > > A look at the 100-core Tilera Gx > > It's all about the network(s) > > by Charlie Demerjian > > October 29, 2009
> In previous generations, there was no floating-point (FP) hardware in Tilera > products. The company strongly recommended against using FP code because it > had to be emulated taking hundreds or thousands of cycles. With the new Gx > series chips, FP code is still frowned upon, but there is some FP hardware to > catch the odd instruction without a huge speed hit. The 100 core part can do > 50 GigaFLOPS of FP which may sound like a large number, but that is only > about 1/50th of what an ATI Cypress HD5870 chip can do. I imagine this short-coming will limit the Tilera Gx's value to most of HPC community. This doesn't even mention DP performance. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
