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iamNumber4 on May 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support...

I'm a long time Nvidia user. However, the recent article headlines have been a word salad.

The new tesla volta super flip flop at 1.21 gigawatts blah blah blah.

Just saying.

Also Kudos to Nvidia for the buzzword/made up word creation for their products.

Symmetry on May 12, 2017 [–]

Surely getting people to refer to their vector lanes as "cores" was their biggest piece of marketing magic. Yes, they're more flexible than SIMD cores but not more so than an OoO core's execution ports.

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