Comment by joe_the_user

8 years ago

Cool!

I have "evangelized" one person at least.

The thing about MOG is it's a demonstrated technique that Dietz has not yet developed into a fully releasable product. His latest comment says it's six months from release but lacks funding.

I think the problem might be that most "Mimd" programming is things like weather-simulations where access to a MIMD supercomputer is standard and price isn't that much of an issue.

That said, cheap Simd parallel computing jump-started today's deep learning advances and so cheap MIMD might do things no one anticipated.

Still, very niche. But thanks for the mention.

Edit: Note, MOG is specifically a GPU. Dietz did earlier work on other machines in the 90s but this is GPU specific (though a less flexible architecture than what Nvidia has evolved now).