Part 11. Revisit of the HPLinpack benchmark
content by Xing Chen The HPLinpack benchmark for Top500 list, introduced by Jack Dongarra, generates a random n by n dense linear system of...
Year: 2025
“The Forever Battery”
By Scott Hamilton I am always reading about new technologies and the one that caught my eye this week was...
“Electronic Waste”
By Scott Hamilton I have known for years that the giants in the software industry were in a profit sharing...
Part 10. Attention: The Floating-Point!
content by Xing Chen Suppose a bank was using the IEEE 754 Single Precision (32-bit) Floating-Point number to do their...
Part 9. CPU SIMD Extension for All (ARM & POWER)
content by Xing Chen ARM CPU also developed its own SIMD extension, called SVE, short for Scalable Vector Extension, here...
“Hallucinations”
By Scott Hamilton I have been using Microsoft’s Co-pilot for the last several months to help me with generating quizzes...
Part 8. CPU SIMD Extension for X86 (Continued)
content by Xing Chen AMD version AVX-512 appeared on Zen 4 series, and it is reported to be continued on...
“A Cultural Phenomenon?”
By Scott Hamilton I made an interesting observation over the weekend when I went to watch “A MineCraft Movie” at...
Part 7. CPU SIMD Extension for X86
content by Xing Chen If we rewind back to 1987, you will find the following two chips on one single...
“Do You Need a New Computer?”
By Scott Hamilton For those of you who don’t follow technology news closely, you might have missed something very important,...
