Re: [agi] Funky Intel hardware, a few years off...
On 10/31/06, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks exciting... http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=302type=expertpid=1 A system Intel is envisioning, with 100 tightly connected cores on a chip, each with 32MB of local SRAM ... If you want to go in that direction, you can start programming GPUs (graphic processing units) today. The chips in your graphics card are more efficient (in terms of computation per time or unit of energy or heat generated) than your CPU, because they are more special-purpose. A design that could use 100 cores would be constrained by that parallelism, and might be easily adapted to run on a GPU. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
Re: [agi] Funky Intel hardware, a few years off...
IBM's system [high thermal conductivity interface technology], while not yet ready for commercial production, is reportedly so efficient that officials expect it will double cooling efficiency. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15484274/ Probably being hyped more than its actual performance, but thiswill certainly help. -hank On 10/31/06, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks exciting... http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=302type=expertpid=1A system Intel is envisioning, with 100 tightly connected cores on achip, each with 32MB of local SRAM ...This kind of hardware, it seems, would enable the implementation of a powerful Novamente AGI system on a relatively small number ofmachines. Of course, this would require some serious customizationof the Novamente codebase, but not any fundamental change to theNovamente AI paradigm, as the NM system has been designed with highly flexible distributed processing in mind.[And obviously, looking at it less selfishly, there is tremendouspotential for acceleration of other AI systems well; and excitingthings beyond AI such as virtual reality simulations...] This stuff is several years off from commercial production, I'm sure,but nevertheless it is nice to see what's out there.-- Ben G-This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/emailTo unsubscribe or change your options, please go to:http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[agi] Funky Intel hardware, a few years off...
This looks exciting... http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=302type=expertpid=1 A system Intel is envisioning, with 100 tightly connected cores on a chip, each with 32MB of local SRAM ... This kind of hardware, it seems, would enable the implementation of a powerful Novamente AGI system on a relatively small number of machines. Of course, this would require some serious customization of the Novamente codebase, but not any fundamental change to the Novamente AI paradigm, as the NM system has been designed with highly flexible distributed processing in mind. [And obviously, looking at it less selfishly, there is tremendous potential for acceleration of other AI systems well; and exciting things beyond AI such as virtual reality simulations...] This stuff is several years off from commercial production, I'm sure, but nevertheless it is nice to see what's out there. -- Ben G - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
