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It lives on in the Sunway Taihu Light. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/04/102740474-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistor
by CalChris 6y ago
It lives on in the Sunway Taihu Light.
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/04/102740474-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
- jeffbee 6y agoIt lived on in a much larger way than that by becoming, in a certain sense, the AMD Opteron. There's been a travelling team of hotshot CPU architects who move around the industry together and they gave us the later (i.e. the ones that were actually good) DEC Alpha, the AMD K8 "Opteron", the Apple A-series CPUs that we're all fawning over right now, and the AMD Zen series.
- KMag 6y agoI remember keeping my eye out for the PASemi IPO, based on the track record of that team, and then Apple went and ruined it by buying the company to acqui-hire that team for their A-series CPUs.
- gnufx 6y agoI don't understand how this theory about Alpha and Sunway originated. Even if numerology suggested the Sunway chips were Alpha-derived, Dongarra[1] refutes it. TaihuLight is memory-constrained. The Alphas we used had enough cache to hold a crystallography image, and more-or-less a whole dataset in main memory. If people hadn't insisted on using PDP-11 software designs, visitors would have been even more impressed how fast they were. 1. https://performance.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-report-2016.pdf https://performance.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPER...
- CalChris 6y agoDick Sites, and he'd kinda know. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/04/102740474-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
- gnufx 6y agoHow does he know? Was Dongarra completely misled, and how come it appears nothing like the Alphas I used, which certainly didn't just have a small scratchpad? Dongarra must have been pretty familiar with Alphas, of course.