I even have a better dream if possible: a pilchard-like card. Pilchard was an FPGA you were inserting in a memory slot, that was space odyssey - I mean, in 2001.
You'd then get the better of both worlds: my 32 Gb DDR4 RAM would be as near as it could from my beloved Epiphany de la Parallella
I agree ; any code with (very low RAM needs and) lots of branchs should behave very well with Epiphany (penalty is only 0 or 3 cycles), much better than with GPU or heavy pipelined x86 CPU.
I've tried both ; GPU was a failure (same experiment from another guy) ; whereas Paralle2 - a simple backtracker for Eternity II-like puzzles - works great for Epiphany.
Epiphany does the same job as two thirds of a high end CPU single core (core i7 Haswell 5820k, turbo mode 3.6 GHz) - with low power 4.7 W instead of 72 W O_O
You should have few data and much computation ; I currently code a simple OCR (Optical Character Recognition), maybe it could fit too.Statistics: Posted by DonQuichotte — Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:13 am
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