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petsoi via Linux 1 day ago • lemmy

Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit

Currently the Linux kernel's 'perf' performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value

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yenguardian 23 hours ago • lemmy

and this is to go... EVEN FURTHER BEYOND

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DavidGarcia 23 hours ago • lemmy

How long until CPUs and GPUs just merge into one thing

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Strit 22 hours ago • lemmy

You mean like an APU?

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wewbull 19 hours ago • lemmy

Not OP, but I doubt that's what he meant. An APU still has a CPU and a GPU on it as separate things.

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wewbull 19 hours ago • lemmy

Probably never. Those 2048 cores are all separate threads. GPUs work with a cluster of cores all following a single thread of execution.

MIMD Vs SIMD.

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Nanook 19 hours ago friendica (DFRN)

Intel has been making CPUs with integrated GPUs for ages, i7-6700K with UHD630 graphics for example, the thing is they contain a very small number of shaders, etc, because there is only so much real-estate on a single die and these weren't really intended for gaming, just providing enough GPU for a basic display, watch videos, etc.

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DannyBoy 18 hours ago • lemmy

Today's the day the prophesy becomes true.

xkcd.com/619/

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^xkcd

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xthexder 3 hours ago • lemmy

Thank god we were able to ditch flash player!

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DannyBoy 3 hours ago • lemmy

I suppose we reached 4096 CPU support before full screen Flash support, just in a different way. Maybe somebody who used Linux in the Flash era can comment if it ever was working well.