[TT]AMD introduces heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access

Jaydip

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http://www.tweaktown.com/news/30038/amd-introduces-heterogeneous-uniform-memory-access/index.html

This morning AMD announced the next big advancement concerning their APU technology. AMD heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) is an intelligent computing architecture that enables the CPU, GPU, and other processors to work in harmony from a single piece of silicon in a single pool of memory and seamlessly move task to the best suited processing unit.

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Jaydip

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Not sure but seems like it.But I really wanna know the programming model becasue some wild pointer quirks can halt this system.
 

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Awesome - absolutely less information than already revealed in the rumours.

HSA Bot's GO GO!.



Are they ever gonna reveal anything technical - or do they know it's future would look more bleak if so?
 

inf64

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Awesome - absolutely less information than already revealed in the rumours.

HSA Bot's GO GO!.



Are they ever gonna reveal anything technical - or do they know it's future would look more bleak if so?

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Arkadrel

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Awesome - absolutely less information than already revealed in the rumours.

HSA Bot's GO GO!.

Are they ever gonna reveal anything technical - or do they know it's future would look more bleak if so?


Title: AMD introduces heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access

So this isnt about HSA, its about memory access.

And your bot spam remark is insulting, what about your own blind rage spam post? Did you read the article?

And be honest would technical details of how memory works benefit you at all? Wouldnt you rather read a article like this that has things explained to you, in simple to understand ways instead of looking at things that would likely be incomprehensible to you?
 
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sontin

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More powerpoint slides about HSA.

Must be so great. The last time i read so much about something from AMD was before they launched Bulldozer.
 

Arkadrel

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More powerpoint slides about HSA.

Must be so great. The last time i read so much about something from AMD was before they launched Bulldozer.

Oh look another AMD hate post. Blind hate is everybit as bad, as blind devotion.

There is a differnce though. Bulldozer was a CPU.
HSA isnt a CPU, its a technique thats gonna change the future of things.

Just like x86-64 was, only the performance gain from this is gonna be much bigger.
 

sontin

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Oh look another AMD hate post. Blind hate is everybit as bad, as blind devotion.

There is a differnce though. Bulldozer was a CPU.
HSA isnt a CPU, its a technique thats gonna change the future of things.

Just like x86-64 was, only the performance gain from this is gonna be much bigger.

HSA exists since 2011. And we still talking about powerpoint slides. Kaveri comes 2014 to the market. Nearly one year from now. And it's the only product which will feature all powerpoint slides features.

A 512SP APU. Low-End next year.
 
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Jaydip

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The idea looks very interesting to me from programming point of view.Is the APU responsible for keeping this operation thread safe or the burden lies with programmers and languages?
 

Abwx

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Kaveri comes 2014 to the market.
Nearly one year from now.

Funny post or how Stretching 6 months to one year..

Be sure that Kaveri will be officialy launched and shipping
on early Q4 2013 , they have already announced it and
they are currently giving more info because it s likely
that the final silicon is on its way at GF.
 

Abwx

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The idea looks very interesting to me from programming point of view.Is the APU responsible for keeping this operation thread safe or the burden lies with programmers and languages?

Dont know but they re saying that :

AMD said Kaveri's hUMA architecture has been implemented entirely in hardware, so it should support any operating systems and programming models. Virtualization is supported, as well.

http://techreport.com/news/24737/amd-sheds-light-on-kaveri-uniform-memory-architecture
 

sontin

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Shipping to partners in Q4 2013. Means we will see first products in Q1 or Q2 2014.
That's 8 - 12 months from now.

Maybe you look back and see that AMD's shipping statement says nothing about the time you can buy the product.
 

R0H1T

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HSA exists since 2011. And we still talking about powerpoint slides. Kaveri comes 2014 to the market. Nearly one year from now. And it's the only product which will feature all powerpoint slides features.

A 512SP APU. Low-End next year.
The concept itself predates 2011 but AMD, with its limited resources, is the one that'll deliver it first on x86 is what's really noteworthy & btw where did you get that 2014 from ?
 

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I don't like the tone in here. Everyone had best get much nicer, or they're going to get much more bored.

-ViRGE
 

Abwx

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Shipping to partners in Q4 2013. Means we will see first products in Q1 or Q2 2014.
That's 8 - 12 months from now.

Maybe you look back and see that AMD's shipping statement says nothing about the time you can buy the product.

For AMD the market is their customers , not you or me...
 

lagokc

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Shipping to partners in Q4 2013. Means we will see first products in Q1 or Q2 2014.
That's 8 - 12 months from now.

Maybe you look back and see that AMD's shipping statement says nothing about the time you can buy the product.

If it's shipping early Q4 then AMD's partners would be stupid to not struggle to have products available by Christmas season.