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China's New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23

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Re: China's New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23

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> However, you want to overlap computation with network transfers.

Yes, if you run your favourite Microsoft operating system, which has to tell mothership when you open calculator.

This is like saying that the operator on the old punch card computers has to look at the results after every input line processed from the punchcard.

Re: China's New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23

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ouch, lol:

"Sunway’s new supercomputer therefore feels like a system designed with the goal of landing high on some TOP500 lists. For that purpose, it’s perfect, providing a lot of throughput without wasting money on pesky things like cache, out-of-order execution, and high bandwidth memory."

Re: China's New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23

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The article didn't mention the exact ISA used.

More detailed info about the processor and its architecture can be found here:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/11/20/chinas-newish-sw26010-...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10171536

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7965116