<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/24 Vincent Diepeveen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diep@xs4all.nl">diep@xs4all.nl</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In HPC there is however 1 thing i really miss. I'm convinced it exists, a kind of GPU type cpu, with a lot of memory controllers<br>
attached, that's doing calculations in double precision. A smal team of 5 persons can build it and clock is oh 300-350Mhz or so?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>It exists and is called Niagara 2:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2</a><br><a href="http://www.opensparc.net/pubs/preszo/07/n2isscc.pdf">http://www.opensparc.net/pubs/preszo/07/n2isscc.pdf</a><br>
<br>Benchmark:<br><a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Esamw/research/papers/ipdps08.pdf">http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Esamw/research/papers/ipdps08.pdf</a><br><br><br></div>