On the subject of new architectures, James Lin from the Shanghai HPC Centre tweeted this: In HPC China2018, I see the prototype node of Tianhe3. Processor (FT-matrix 2000+): 128 cores, 2TFlops in DP --> Node: 3 processors, 6TF --> The prototype system: 512 nodes, 3PFlops. The interconnection is 200Gbps. Details will be available online later this month. Looking at the Matrix processor it is very interesting: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/nudt/matrix-2000 Each Matrix consist for four 'super nodes' with 32 cores and its own paths to DDR4 memory. So you would imagine there are 4 separate chips in the package, but I may be wrong. Each core has two 256bit wide vector units. Clocked at 1.2Ghz which makes sense. A couple of observations: A single 128 CPU machine with 256 wide vector units would have been a pretty respectable supercomputer in itself not so long ago. If I have not miscalculated, it would have got you near the top of the Top 500 in 2010 I wish I could get a hold of one, or a test drive - probably not much hope of that. Stu Midgley - I think you need to get your order in for a boat load of these! So I will stick my neck out - Doug, get on a flight to Shanghai for your next clustermonkey building blocks.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 03:24, Jonathan Engwall < engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com> wrote: > On October 17, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:35:52 +1100, you wrote: > >>On Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:38:15 AM AEDT Gerald Henriksen wrote: > >> > >>> If ARM, or Power, want to move from their current positions in the > >>> market they really need to provide affordable developer machines, > >> > >>Not sure if this comes in at a price point that makes sense for this, > but > >>there is now an ATX Power9 mainboard available. > >> > >>https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ > >> > >>They claim: > >> > >>https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1020371675316215809 > >> > >># TalosIILite in stock and ready to ship! #POWER9 mainboard + CPU + RAM > + HSF > >># for under $2,000 USD, what's not to like? Supports all of our Sforza > CPU > >># options, from 4 core to the high end 22 core CPUs. > >Not really. > >While there obviously is a lot of corporate funded work in the open > >source community I would guess little of it is interested in anything > >but the traditional AMD/Intel systems, and maybe ARM. > >To give a new / minor platform traction you really need to have > >something priced where it can be a personal purchase, normally as a > >secondary machine as few people will move to ARM or Power (at this > >point) as an only machine. > >They do however have another platform coming, no prices yet, but > >should hopefully be more affordable in the Blackbird: > >https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Blackbird > >And to point out what is obvious to many, the reason these cheaper > >systems are needed is to get all that open source software working and > > Two nights ago I turned two lines of core python into seven working lines. > It is extremely frustrating. Lately I just expect it. > > >tested, Raptor has had to do work just to get Chrome working on Power: > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Chrome-JIT-PPC64LE-Work > >_______________________________________________ > >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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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