Hi Toby, > Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> writes: >> Parallella will ship their first (OpenCL-enabled!) boards in October and >> also offers a university partner program: >> http://www.parallella.org/pup/ > > I'd forgotten about these things! Their roadmap does look intruiging; > I'm looking forward to seeing a 64K Epiphany chip in 2018, and playing > with it from a neural net point of view.
Even though high core counts look promising in terms of FLOPs/Watt, the tricky part is to actually use them efficiently... :-) I don't think we will see 64K cores by that time, though. Their inital roadmap listed 1k cores for 2014 already, which is (imho) way to aggressive... > And so en route to 64k cores, I'd be keen to get in early and play with > 16; though I suspect from the software perspective that programming an > Epiphany multi-core isn't much different from doing parallel programming > in other situations. So, yeah, I'm interested; and it's good to see > they've got an OpenCL SDK. What does the academic programme entail? The academic program gives away 1 board to academic partners (distributed equally) for every 100 boards sold. I actually prefer to spend the ~100 USD rather than spending time on writing a partnership proposal just to get a first device for experimentation. If our tests succeed, we may still try to enter the program in order to build up a small cluster over time. > This all reminds me, tangentially, of a compiler/language project that > seems to have died out: https://code.google.com/p/anic/ -- did any of > you come across that before? The dataflow paradigm does look very neat, > but I think the guy never found the time to build a working runtime > scheduler. Were I more interested in compiler technology, I'd be pretty > keen to work on something like anic.. Haven't heard of it before, no. There are too many language attempts out there, so I don't even try to keep track of all of them... Best regards, Karli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ViennaCL-devel mailing list ViennaCL-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viennacl-devel
