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The closest alternative would be ARM

On the contrary there's SPARC, MIPS, PA-RISC, POWER and a whole heap of others that perhaps were written off prematurely. Need to move quickly tho' while some vestiges of expertise still remain.



Sparc, Tilera and Parallela are unfortunately gone. I had high hopes into the latter two, esp. since Grid CPU's are perfect for machine learning. Much better than GPU's.


Fujitsu still have SPARC on their roadmap http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/uni...


Roadmap yes, but Linux support no. https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64


I'd argue that POWER is still alive and well.


We just bought a brand new POWER 7. The vendor has no plans to move to another architecture (that I could get out of them anyway).




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