[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fujitsu Switches Horses for Post-K Supercomputer

[peter jones]

Dear Aurelien,

This may add to your understanding of technology in the pipeline effecting
enterprise architecture in the future.

Robert
http://www.arm.com/markets/infrastructure



On 16 July 2016 at 15:30, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hullo,
> slightly off topic: in case people are interested in HPC, Fujitsu announced
> a month ago that they are moving from SPARC64 to ARMv8 for their next
> supercomputer:
>
> https://www.top500.org/news/fujitsu-switches-horses-for-
> post-k-supercomputer-will-ride-arm-into-exascale/
>
> Since power efficiency is the main issue for Exascale this somehow makes
> sense.
> Their SPARC64fx series used in the K-Computer (Top500 #5) was a very neat
> piece of work as they developed the ACE instruction set for HPC.
>
> Also I just found out that TIanhe-2 (Top500 #2) used OpenSPARC processors,
> Galaxy FT-1500, for login nodes; compute nodes being based on Xeon + Xeon
> Phi.
>
> Aurélien
>
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