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robertcprice1yesterday at 12:31 PM4 repliesview on HN

Hey everyone thank you taking a look at my project. This was purely just a “can I do it” type deal, but ultimately my goal is to make a running OS purely on GPU, or one composed of learned systems.


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StilesCrisisyesterday at 1:22 PM

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.

lstevens14yesterday at 1:03 PM

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

yjftsjthsd-hyesterday at 5:18 PM

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

mghackerladyyesterday at 5:31 PM

GNU/GPU