Re: Anybody seen this?

Hi Anne,

At a minimum power consumption is a lot less (just several Watt).

Also, the GPU (CUDA API) is SIMD, whereas this system is MIMD.

This makes it more transputer-like. I hope I can find some time this week to scan the flyers.

Cheers,

Herman

From: Anne van Rossum

Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:06 PM

To: Herman Roebbers

Cc: Øyvind Teig ; ael ; occam-com@xxxxxxxxxx ; java-threads@xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Anybody seen this?

Hi Herman,

What would be the benefit over a teraflop GPU (combined with e.g. a dataflow paradigm such as SystemC) except for power consumption? I'm in robotics, so I can appreciate it, if the only benefit IS actually the power consumption. :-)

In the movie they call their Eclipse plugin Sigma-C, perhaps that's what you heard.

Kind regards,

Anne

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Herman Roebbers <herman7@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Øyvind, Adrian,

I had a talk with of their people at the stand. I noticed that the website talks about DataFlow Programming.

At the stand I got the name Signal-C. There are some folders.

If I remember correctly a board with 1 chip is around EUR 100.

They have a workstation containing one or more boards including software for about EUR 10000.

I have some flyers at work, that I could scan and email to you.

Cheers,

Herman

I couldn't find a data sheet, so pretty hard to evaluate. But it looks
interesting. I didn't see an evaluation board either, so presumably they
haven't quite got a real product yet?

Adrian

From: Øyvind Teig

Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 9:40 AM

To: Herman Roebbers

Cc: Øyvind Teig

Subject: Re: Anybody seen this?

Herman,

I couldn't find a page aith "Signal-C"? Do you have a link?

Øyvind

15. mars 2013 kl. 23:27 skrev "Herman Roebbers" <herman7@xxxxxx>:

Hi,

Did anybody see this: http://www.kalray.eu/ ?

I visited their stand at Embedded World.

Manycore MIMD processing with synchronous communication in “Signal-C”.

Much like transputing with many (256+) cores on one chip.

Looks very interesting, and is not really expensive.

Cheers,

Herman

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