got together in May of last year to simulate the sloppy math processor

Roy and Brown, funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, got together in May of last year to simulate the sloppy math processor, tweaking an existing algorithm used to distinguish background and foreground objects in images so that the results were randomly augmented by a factor of zero to one percent.”The difference between the low-precision and the standard arithmetic was trivial,” Shaw says. “It was about 14 pixels out of replica Omega 2377.30 WoMen's watch a million, averaged over many, many frames of video.” “No human could see any of that,” Bates adds.What makes the sloppy math processor more efficient than a normal one? For one, the lack of precision allows for much smaller cores, with 1,000 fitting on a single chip as opposed to today's most advanced standard CPU cores that max out at 12.The way the chip works will be more efficient as well.

Where regular chips allow for communication across all cores at once, Brown's chip only allows for communication between adjacent cores, for much more efficient performance. Of course that means the focus of the processor's calculations must be much tighter, working on processes that can be divided up into smaller tasks, like video editing or replica Omega 2502.80 Men's Watch image processing.Former Intel architect Bob Colwell suggests that the chips could also be used in similar fashion to the graphics processing units found on today's video cards, producing 3D images that “probably don't need to be rendered perfectly.

“The chip would work in conjunction with a standard processor, tackling heavy focused tasks to help take some of the weight off of the regular chip.It's a wonderful idea that makes perfect sense, but Brown sees one potentially major flaw in his design.”There's going to be a fair amount of people out in the world that as soon as you tell them I've got replica Omega 2103.3 Men's Watch a facility in my new chip that gives sort-of wrong answers, that's what they're going to hear no matter how you describe it,” he adds. “That's kind of a non-technical barrier, but it's real nonetheless.”The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic [Physorg]”In the spirit of the new year and all things gaming, I bring to you the Illustrated Guide to MineCraft.