Re: [Beowulf] China aims for 100 PF

2016-06-21 Thread Bill Broadley
On 06/21/2016 05:14 AM, Remy Dernat wrote: Hi, 100 PF is really not far from reality right now: http://www.top500.org/news/new-chinese-supercomputer-named-worlds-fastest-system-on-latest-top500-list/ I was curious about the CPU/architecture and I found: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/Jack

Re: [Beowulf] China aims for 100 PF

2016-06-21 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Are you sure it's even built by IBM? From the quote below, it sounds like it's using 32 nm fabrication developed by IBM, but it's unclear from wording if it was actually built by IBM. making the KiloCore 100 times more power-efficient than a laptop despite being built on old 32nm CMOS processo

Re: [Beowulf] China aims for 100 PF

2016-06-21 Thread C Bergström
Did you even other to read the article? It's IBM fab, but UC Davis research unless I'm completely wrong.. Without real details like the ISA (which I assume is some common RISC-like thing) who knows how useful it could ever be outside of testing how many "cores" can be stuffed on a single chip..

Re: [Beowulf] China aims for 100 PF

2016-06-21 Thread Remy Dernat
Hi, 100 PF is really not far from reality right now: http://www.top500.org/news/new-chinese-supercomputer-named-worlds-fastest-system-on-latest-top500-list/ Is this why IBM just release its KiloCore processor ? http://www.pcworld.com/article/3085502/components-processors/meet-kilocore-a-1000-c