Imagine licencing Windows Server 2016 for 10 million cores... o_O
China looks set to pip Uncle Sam at the post in exascale computer race
China is to take a clear lead in the exascale superdupercomputer race - its Tianhe-3 system looks to be a whole year ahead of the US's best efforts. Aurora, Frontier and El Capitan, the three US exascale supercomputers, are set to be eclipsed by China's Tianhe-3 1 exaFLOPS system which is prototyping this year with delivery …
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Thursday 8th March 2018 15:05 GMT Destroy All Monsters
Re: You need to port it first
It's a descendant of Alpha if I remember correctly.
Apparently not:
Report on the Sunway TaihuLight System
Shenwei-64 Instruction Set (this is NOT related to the DEC Alpha instruction set)
Very little on the detail design of SW1600 chip was make public but various comments in the web and some history of the 江南计算所SW微处理器 indicate that SW has it original from the DEC alpha chip 21164
How is it even possible that no-one has wikileaked the instruction set?
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