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Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor

posted by martyb on Friday September 04 2015, @06:15PM   
from the MIAOW-sounds-like-one-cat-crying-out dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

While open-source hardware is already available for CPUs, researchers from the Vertical Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have announced at the Hot Chips Event in Cupertino, Calif., that they have created the first open source general-purpose graphics processor (GPGPU).

Called MIAOW, which stands for Many-core Integrated Accelerator Of the Waterdeep, the processor is a resistor-transistor logic implementation of AMD's open source Southern Islands instruction set architecture. The researchers published a white paper on the device.

The creation of MIAOW is the latest in a series of steps meant to keep processor development in step with Moore's Law, explains computer scientist Karu Sankaralingham, who leads the Wisconsin research group.

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• Schrödinger's GPGPU Schrödinger's GPGPU (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday September 04 2015, @06:38PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday September 04 2015, @06:38PM (#232371) Journal

  So your graphics processor may get killed if you use it with a quantum computer? :-)

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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• Re:Schrödinger's GPGPU (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @07:22PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @07:22PM (#232390)

  Hmm..depends on which universe you are in.

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