On 04/30/2014 02:25 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
* will 3rd parties like nvidia be able to do something compelling with
cache coherent access to main memory?
This seems very likely, as NVidia is part of the founding members of the
OpenPOWER consortium and IBM and NVidia announced plans to integrate
POWER processors and Tesla GPUs at SC13:
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/IBM-NVIDIA-to-Supercharge-Corporate-Data-Center-Applications-and-Next-Generation-Supercomputers-a65.aspx
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41684.wss
Since the POWER8 processor is part of the OpenPOWER initiative, it is my
understanding that any vendor should be able to license the POWER8 IP
and extend it, similar to the ARM processor.
--
Prentice
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