Re: [fonc] My annual hey, look at this post: Ivan Sutherland's FLEET architecture
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Joshua Gargus sc...@fastmail.us wrote: Nikolay Suslov wrote: Just to mention, that Thacker's BEE FPGA is not another hardware project, but the emulation engine, where Fleet (the novel processor architecture) is being researched and emulated. A box packed full of FPGAs capable of 4 teraops/second isn't a hardware project? I beg to differ. :-) ) Of course it is the hardware project, I just mean not another, that it is not really comparable BEE 1/2/3 and Fleet novel processor architecture as projects. BEE is like a wide platform for researching a new DSPs, microprocessors architectures (Fleet is here) etc. and as you said doing it using FPGAs. This is a slides about BEE2 and on 18 page you will find Fleet also: http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/php/pubs/pubs.php/493/JohnW-BWRC-RetreatV2-1-08.pdf Regards, Nikolay One of the target use-cases for the BEE is indeed to simulate new processor architectures. However, that's not all it's for. Among other things, the beecube.com webpage says that it can be used for FPGA based computational acceleration in HPC and High performance digital signal processing. Cheers, Josh Regards, Nikolay On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Joshua Gargus sc...@fastmail.us wrote: I just noticed this: http://fleet.cs.berkeley.edu/ It seems relevant to this list both because it's an ambitious re-imagining of the foundations of processor architecture, and because of the intellectual heritage between Ivan and Alan. I know that VPRI is keeping an eye on other hardware projects, like Thacker's BEE FPGA boxes, and I wonder how relevant Sutherland's work might be to VPRI in, say, 1 or 5 years? Cheers, Josh ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc -- ___ fonc mailing listf...@vpri.orghttp://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
Re: [fonc] My annual hey, look at this post: Ivan Sutherland's FLEET architecture
Nikolay Suslov wrote: Just to mention, that Thacker's BEE FPGA is not another hardware project, but the emulation engine, where Fleet (the novel processor architecture) is being researched and emulated. A box packed full of FPGAs capable of 4 teraops/second isn't a hardware project? I beg to differ. :-) One of the target use-cases for the BEE is indeed to simulate new processor architectures. However, that's not all it's for. Among other things, the beecube.com webpage says that it can be used for FPGA based computational acceleration in HPC and High performance digital signal processing. Cheers, Josh Regards, Nikolay On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Joshua Gargus sc...@fastmail.us mailto:sc...@fastmail.us wrote: I just noticed this: http://fleet.cs.berkeley.edu/ It seems relevant to this list both because it's an ambitious re-imagining of the foundations of processor architecture, and because of the intellectual heritage between Ivan and Alan. I know that VPRI is keeping an eye on other hardware projects, like Thacker's BEE FPGA boxes, and I wonder how relevant Sutherland's work might be to VPRI in, say, 1 or 5 years? Cheers, Josh ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org mailto:fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
[fonc] My annual hey, look at this post: Ivan Sutherland's FLEET architecture
I just noticed this: http://fleet.cs.berkeley.edu/ It seems relevant to this list both because it's an ambitious re-imagining of the foundations of processor architecture, and because of the intellectual heritage between Ivan and Alan. I know that VPRI is keeping an eye on other hardware projects, like Thacker's BEE FPGA boxes, and I wonder how relevant Sutherland's work might be to VPRI in, say, 1 or 5 years? Cheers, Josh ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
Re: [fonc] My annual hey, look at this post: Ivan Sutherland's FLEET architecture
Just to mention, that Thacker's BEE FPGA is not another hardware project, but the emulation engine, where Fleet (the novel processor architecture) is being researched and emulated. Regards, Nikolay On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Joshua Gargus sc...@fastmail.us wrote: I just noticed this: http://fleet.cs.berkeley.edu/ It seems relevant to this list both because it's an ambitious re-imagining of the foundations of processor architecture, and because of the intellectual heritage between Ivan and Alan. I know that VPRI is keeping an eye on other hardware projects, like Thacker's BEE FPGA boxes, and I wonder how relevant Sutherland's work might be to VPRI in, say, 1 or 5 years? Cheers, Josh ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
