[Info-vax] Adding AI functionality to VMS ?

[John Dallman]

In article <b966b1d7-136f-44b5-a367-7f260a7491dan at googlegroups.com>,
gezelter at rlgsc.com (Bob Gezelter) wrote:

> The challenge is how to access GPU processors from an OpenVMS 
> system, particularly a virtualized OpenVMS instance. The best way 
> is physical hardware, I did some work in this genre back in the VAX 
> and PDP-11 days with graphic and signal processor add ons. The 
> virtual machine monitors probably have a way to get to the GPU, but 
> a separate GPU class/port driver would probably be needed. It is an 
> interesting idea, but it needs to be done carefully so that it is 
> not a dead end.

Here's an easy way, but it's probably a dead end. Qualcomm's high-end
SoCs for Android 'phones have additional processors intended for current
styles of AI. You can buy mains-powered single-board computers with them
on for about $1600, and they talk fast over USB-C. 

John