On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:50:09PM -0500, Rayson Ho wrote: > http://iram.cs.berkeley.edu/ > > So 15 years later someone suddenly thinks that it is a good idea to > ship IRAM systems to real customers?? :-D
Sure. But from when I last read about the IRAM stuff, I'm pretty sure it was strictly single core. Their VIRAM1 chip had 13 MB of DRAM, 1 cpu core, and 4 "vector lanes", with no mention of SMP or any sort of multi-chip parallelism at all. If Venray has a good design for using hundreds or more IRAM-like chips in a parallel machine, that sounds like a significant step forward. (The intended fab process and attendant design rules might also be quite different, although I'm not at all sure about that.) -- Andrew Piskorski <[email protected]> http://www.piskorski.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
