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nyar
Delete "sample page" or at least remove it from the primary menu.
frozenport
Website could use an about page. I have no clue what this is, and I wrote a few hundred lines lines in CUDA this morning.
adamnemecek
It's a Verilog implementation of a GPU with late 90's architecture.
unwind
It could also (really) use some screenshots. But perhaps that's way too early, although there's talk about results in terms of tests passing and failing. I imagine that for a GPU, some of those would involve some type of rendering.
userbinator
It'll be interesting to see how well this turns out; I remember hearing about opengraphics.org a few years ago, which seems to have reached prototype hardware stage and then died. GPUs are still one of the most closed parts of a computer, so this is certainly a step in the right direction. There's also this, which is only VGA-compatible, but similarly hasn't had much success: http://wacco.mveas.com/

...but there's this complete PC-on-an-FPGA, including a VGA-compatible controller: http://zet.aluzina.org/index.php/Zet_processor

mng2
This seems to be the code from the "Open Source Graphics Project" Kickstarter that ran last year. They didn't get anywhere near the $200K goal for 2-D, much less the $400K goal for 3-D. Glad to see that it's getting out there anyway.
simias
Agreed. Here's the failed kickstarter which contains a video of the project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-g...

And previous hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520447