Regarding my tweet yesterday about wanting GPU ISAs instead of APIs, Jeff Roberts emailed me with the following comment:
@scottmichaud @Jonathan_Blow But that is not an attribute of the hardware, that is an attribute of a job assigned to the hardware.
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@scottmichaud@Jonathan_Blow It is also not even actually correct, since integrated parts like Bulldozer are not as distinct as this. -
@scottmichaud@Jonathan_Blow It is more like an FPU and less like a separate thing, and can even be used for FPU-like services directly.
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