some more details about the chips. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-dawning-china-homemade-supercomputer.html
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Interesting: >> Chinese supercomputers to use ‘homemade’ chips >> >> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/Chinese-supercomputers-to-use-homemade-chips/articleshow/7655183.cms >> > > it's important to remind ourselves that China is still a centrally-planned, > totalitarian dictatorship. I mention this only because this announcement > is a bit like Putin et al announcing that they'll develop their own linux > distro because Russia is big and important and mustn't allow itself to be > vulnerable to foreign hegemony. > > so far, the very shallow reporting I've seen has said that future > generations will add wide FP vector units. nothing wrong with that, > though it's a bit unclear to me why other companies haven't done it > if there is, in fact, lots of important vector codes that will run > efficiently on such a configuration. adding/widening vector FP is not > breakthrough engineering afaikt. > > has anyone heard anything juicy about the Tianhe interconnect? > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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