Hi James
The Whitecross stuff looks great. And yes I like to hear more about it.
About the INMOS occam ray-tracer - somehow I forgot about it.
Running it on a 16 x T805G 120MHz board implemented on an Acorn
CLE-215+ (XC7A200T-3 Artix-7 FPGA) the performance is really great :-)
The FPGA code is written and maintained by Claus Meder and not available.
My part is more the software side and the testing.
We use the CLE215 under Windows and Linux.
But the Hardware is rare, the primary setup requires JTAG+Vivado, so maybe the Kria is the easier platform (12 T805G@230MHz).
http://transputer.net/ktm/ktm.asp
-Mike
Yes, it's really an pleasure to work on modern 64bit hardware and have pleasant compile times for greater projects.
There are some points which maybe not everyone noticed:
The Linkspeed to the host is 48MB/s. On the Kria the internal links even 61MB/s.
Of course there is now a cache in the Transputer and many performance enhancements like pfix/nfix elimination.
There are also some performance counters to analyze FPU/CPU usage.
And last but not least - It is currently being actively operated, maintained and further developed.
If anyone wants to try the Kria, I can only repeat my offer:
Send my an email (http://transputer.net/contact.asp) and I will create an account (on the Ubuntu 22.04 os on the kria) and send you the connection infos back. The INMOS toolset C and occam compiler is installed and ready to run.
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We use the CLE215 under Windows and Linux.
But the Hardware is rare, ...
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