Re: Roadrunner Supercomputer using 12,960 CELL Processors Hits 1

On Jun 12, 1:45 am, Andrew Reilly <andrew-newsp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:31 -0700, Neal wrote:
> > Though the CELL may prove more useful, it still has some serious arch
> > issues that a lot of people don't like. Programming the thing is not
the
> > easiest thing in the world to do (though parallel programming models
for
> > CMPs are somewhat of an open issue). It's nice that they will continue
> > to push performance, but many GPUs will be well above 1TFLOPS SPFP by
> > 2010..
>
> How reasonable is it to complain about the ease of programming the CELL,
> and in the very next sentence, go on about GPUs?
>
> --
> Andrew

It's a pretty reasonable assumption that given the recent and
significant architectural changes of GPUs that they will continue
becoming more general purpose and programmer friendly. I prolly don't
need to mention the name Larrabee. I've programmed for CELL, and I've
programmed in CUDA... my personal opinion is that GPUs in 2010 overall
will be more appealling. That's IMO, and of course opinions can be
debated and may one day be found wrong.