Part 18. A Summary (Point of View of HPC)
Well, it is time to summarize Part 1 to 17: As the famous “killer Micro”, after had “killed”, or “nearly...
X86 and its Future
Content created by Xing CHEN and his views on the future of the classic X86 CPU architecture in HPC and AI.
Part 16. RISC-V Vector Extension
content by Xing Chen I asked the following question in Part 12: “Why should we re-invent the SIMD instead of...
Part 15. Bad Luck for Vector Engine
content by Xing Chen Started from 2006, ended by 2012, the Japaness “Next-Generation Supercomputer Project”, lasted for 7 years and...
Part 14. Long live the Vector Processor!
content by Xing Chen Because they are accelerators, thus the NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engines have to be hosted by...
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...
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...
