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As someone who knows only the very basics of CPU architecture, this was extremely informative, thank you. It's given me lots to read up on.

tibbydudeza 3y ago
Thanks - this will take me a while to digest :).
paulmd 3y ago
I stayed at a holiday inn express last night (PS don't forget agner fog's microarchitecture, you might be one of today's lucky 10,000! https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf ) Consider also scihub:9780849337581 for a general overview of architecture approaches in general. It is funny that we keep reapproaching this "barrel processor" design that the CDC 6600 started so long ago. That "Vector processor + peripheral processor" design is super interesting. Nerds are attracted to this design like moths to a fly - it has been repeated and echoed in Sun Niagara, AMD Bulldozer, Xeon Phi, and now Royal Cores/rentable units/zen4c/5c/etc. We can just make one thing run fast, and have a bunch of workers servicing it, that are simple and slow and cheap, right? https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mashti/cs850-f18/papers/cdc6600.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mashti/cs850-f18/papers/cdc6600.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6600.thornton.design_of_a_computer_the_control_data_6600.1970.102630394.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6... http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/cyber_70/60045000_6600_Computer_System_RefMan_Aug63.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/cyber_70/60045000_660... http://ygdes.com/CDC/cdc6600.html http://ygdes.com/CDC/cdc6600.html Very interesting source material etc, see how they talked about their own processors. A lot of older systems were exhaustively documented and the info is available now. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing

tibbydudeza 3y ago

Thanks - this will take me a while to digest :).

paulmd 3y ago

I stayed at a holiday inn express last night (PS don't forget agner fog's microarchitecture, you might be one of today's lucky 10,000! https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf ) Consider also scihub:9780849337581 for a general overview of architecture approaches in general. It is funny that we keep reapproaching this "barrel processor" design that the CDC 6600 started so long ago. That "Vector processor + peripheral processor" design is super interesting. Nerds are attracted to this design like moths to a fly - it has been repeated and echoed in Sun Niagara, AMD Bulldozer, Xeon Phi, and now Royal Cores/rentable units/zen4c/5c/etc. We can just make one thing run fast, and have a bunch of workers servicing it, that are simple and slow and cheap, right? https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mashti/cs850-f18/papers/cdc6600.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mashti/cs850-f18/papers/cdc6600.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6600.thornton.design_of_a_computer_the_control_data_6600.1970.102630394.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6... http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/cyber_70/60045000_6600_Computer_System_RefMan_Aug63.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/cyber_70/60045000_660... http://ygdes.com/CDC/cdc6600.html http://ygdes.com/CDC/cdc6600.html Very interesting source material etc, see how they talked about their own processors. A lot of older systems were exhaustively documented and the info is available now. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing