On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:57:28 +0000 Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I'd like to do something interesting with my free time. I guess you'll be writing a compiler and assembler for the GPU and.. not too much else, probably. Using the GPU as a proc gives you a NUMA architecture if I'm not wrong, and the just-released nix[1] system is a development of Plan 9 for NUMA systems, with some interesting additions such as the ability to dedicate a core to an application. Best read the paper[2], I only scanned enough to determine if it was worth remembering. ;) [1]: https://bitbucket.org/npe/nix [2]: https://bitbucket.org/npe/nix/src/c1ba3d50a74a/doc/papers/nix/nix.pdf
