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0 pointssolardev3y ago0 comments

> There are two groups of people who want TFlops of SIMD compute. Supercomputer groups, and video gamers.

And crypto people, unfortunately :(

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cowtools3y ago· 2 in thread

Depends on Proof-Of-Work method.

I mean, it’s also true that not all supercomputer groups want TFLOPS of SIMD. Some video gamers are happy with consoles made in the 1990s. Why single out the crypto people?

freemint3y ago

90s console very much also had SIMD it was just in more fixed function hardware, DSPs or the like.

ceeplusplus3y ago

Eh, Eth miners want memory bandwidth, which is increasingly no longer correlated to compute power.

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