<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Parallelism and accelerators are a terrific opportunity for CL.</div><div class="">For example, one could run CL as an OpenCL host, with FFI to the OpenCL host C library, so that lisp creates and coordinates work on GPU and FPGA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Although Nvidia & CUDA are dominant now, the race has only begun.</div><div class=""><div class="">Risk-V, exciting!</div><div class="">Or how about <a href="https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/intel-to-introduce-new-cpu-fpga-hybrid-chip-supported-by-acceleration-stack/" class="">https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/intel-to-introduce-new-cpu-fpga-hybrid-chip-supported-by-acceleration-stack/</a> ?</div></div><div class="">All future systems will use parallel accelerators.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 1, 2018, at 9:10 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <<a href="mailto:rme@acm.org" class="">rme@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 1, 2018, at 4:31 PM, martin <<a href="mailto:brooks.martin@sympatico.ca" class="">brooks.martin@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I’d like to offer a future perspective — where lisp is running on a small cpu in a system on a chip.<br class="">SoC’s today offer ARM, Intel and other CPUs as hard IP; we should anticipate CL as a viable development language in future.<br class="">Or, perhaps less ambitious, CL will run on small CPUs in board-level systems.<br class="">For CCL releases in that future, various word sizes may be required.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Certainly the 32-bit ARM port will remain.<br class=""><br class="">A 64-bit ARM port is, of course, desirable. I got a replacement Odroid C2 after I fried my earlier unit, so all that is lacking is ambition on my part (and maybe a few bundles of $100 bills). :-)<br class=""><br class="">I thought that Intel would have enjoyed more success in the SOC and embedded area, but it seems to me that they just haven't been able to make any inroads there.<br class=""><br class="">A RISC-V port could be fun. Now that Western Digital is going to use RISC-V chips in products, it might end up going somewhere.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Openmcl-devel mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Openmcl-devel@clozure.com" class="">Openmcl-devel@clozure.com</a><br class="">https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>