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I think it's curious that you're saying "on GPU" when you mean "using tensors." GPUs run compute shaders naturally and can trivially act like CPUs, just use CUDA. This is more akin to "a CPU on NPU" and your NPU happens to be a GPU.

Hi! I think that the idea is certainly a fun one. There is a long history of trying to make a good parallel operating system. I do not think that any of the projects succeeded though. This article is a good read if you are interested in that. I am not sure why the economics of parallel computer operating systems have not worked out so far. I think it most likely has to do with the operating systems that we have being good enough and familiar. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440174

The Blue Gene Active Storage project demonstrated compute in highly parallel “storage” where storage was HPC memory. It could work for the relationship between CPU and GPU, FPGA, etc.

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/jsc/downloads/slides/bgas-bof/b...

This is hilarious and profoundly in the spirit of hacker news. Thanks for posting:)

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