Part 13. Vector Processor not dead yet!
content by Xing Chen After Cray, it is NEC’s turn to stop producing machines with vector processors as their Central...
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Part 12. Vector Processor by Seymour Cray
content by Xing Chen In part 1 of this series, “the glorious X86”, I voluntarily removed vector processor from the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Part 5. Is ARM Really Energy Efficient?
content by Xing Chen I copied the first 100 systems from the June 2024 Green500 list into the following table....
Part 4. Is ARM Threat Real for the HPC/AI market?
content by Xing Chen I’d like to focus on the two ARM CPUs targeting HPC/AI market place: Fujitsu A64FX and...
Part 3. Is ARM Threat Real for the general Server/PC market?
content by Xing Chen One article from the ZDnet drew my attention: “If Intel can’t come up with a Qualcomm-killer...
