29 Jun
2018
29 Jun
'18
6:12 p.m.
On 2018-06-29 4:51 AM, Steve Simon wrote:
I know this is a dangerous game to play, but what of
the future?
I am intrigued by the idea of true optical computers,
perhaps the $10M super-computer will return?
GPUs have definitely taken over in some areas - even where
SIMD would not seem a good fit. My previous employer does motion
estimation of realtime video and has moved from custom electronics
and FPGAs to using off the shelf GPUs in PCs.
On this topic, 10 years old, but the Kogge whitepaper on "Exascale
Computing" might be of interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242366160_ExaScale_Computing_Study…
--T
-Steve