Rayla (rayla.delete@this.example.com) on August 27, 2022 10:35 am wrote:
> Nobod (Nobod.delete@this.nospam.com) on August 27, 2022 9:21 am wrote:
> > Chips & Cheese analyzes Tachyum’s Revised Prodigy Architecture
> >
> > The new architecture is more traditional and more likely to work. Unfortunately it is trying to address
> > both HPC and datacenter server markets, but isn’t better than the alternatives at either job.
>
> So... A somewhat unbalanced OoO design (gshare predictor, only 96 physical regs), a pair of massive vector
> units, tiny total caches per core (1MB is fine as an L2, but in the absence of a dedicated L3 it's awfully
> small unless 32+ cores are inactive, isn't it?), clock targets that can politely be described as optimistic,
> and a memory interface far slower than those present in GPUs in a similar FLOPS range?
>
> What am I missing?

Not as good a cpu as a cpu

Not as good a gpu as a gpu

Not as good a "tpu" as the tpu!

But pretty decent at doing all of their jobs!

Low latency, how throughput, ease of programming?

Ease of scale?

EASE OF SCALE!!!

(Not sure you aware but I love them)