A GPGPU is a graphical processing unit, but with adaptations to make it possible to use it for general purpose computing as well. For those of you who followed Intel’s Larrabee project – that is a GPGPU. Intel’s project was stopped before it reached the market. Not an open source project, the Nyuzi Processor, implements a similar architecture.
The project is quite impressive. It features a pipeline vector FPU, multiprocess support, an L1/L2 cache hierarchy. It also comes with a LLVM-based C++ toolchain, software libraries and test benches and can be synthesized.
Check out the github page for instructions, the full Verilog source and all the associated tooling.
Via Phoronix.
Since you link to the Phoronix article, I just want to clarify that it’s Jeff Bush that developed Nyuzi. Theo Markettos has no connection to the project.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Michael Larabel has been sloppy about his GPU-related reporting. I emailed him and asked him to correct the error, but I don’t think he’s going to.
Thank you for pointing this out. I will add a follow up article asap.