Not going to comment on Intel's Larabee / Knight's Landing issue here because I don't know
From the info as have gathered, the first version of SW64 chip did have some built in cache, but by the new version of SW64 used in the supercomputer, the SW64 has neither L1, nor L2, nor L3 cache
Each core is allocated 12 KB of instruction cache, along with 64 KB of local scratchpad
Version 1 of SW64 was 'inspired' by DEC's Alpha 21364 architecture instruction
By Version 3 (circa 2010), according to the same source, they have something called EKOPath, which, reportedly integrate AMD's X64 instuctions onto Alpha's platform
As Version 3 of the SW64 chip only comes in (max) 16-core, I believe the SW64 chip that are being used in the ShenWei supercomputer is of the latter version (because they supposed to have 64 cores per node)
Version 1, 2, and 3 of the SW64 chip has L1, L2 and L3 cache built in. The SW64 chips that are being used for the new ShenWei supercomputer reportedly doesn't have L1, L2, nor L3 cache at all
Furthermore, the frequency of chip has also increased from 1.1GHz to 1.45GHz, indicating a possible chip node shrinkage from the 65nm to a possible 28nm node that China currently possesses
... The processor is divided into four core groups, each with 64 computing processing elements (CPE) and a management processing element (MPE). Each core group also includes a memory controller delivering an aggregate memory bandwidth of 136.5 GB/second on each socket. It runs at a relatively modest 1.45 GHz and supports just a single execution thread per core...
The above was from my (rejected) submission on the same computer
As it is too big I won't quote the entire submitted article here, suffice to give you the link to it - https://slashdot.org/submissio...
... countries like Pakistan who wholeheartedly train, support and fund terrorism...
Saudi Arabia is the biggest paymaster for terrorism
Saudi Arabia is also the biggest paymaster for the imams all over the world
They also fund the millions of madrassa where hundreds of millions of kids are being indoctrinated with the Wahabi ideology which opposes democracy, freedom, equality and is very anti-infidel
I am a Christian and if I go out and kill people it would be wrong for you to blame Christianity for my killing of other people. It is *ME* who do the killing, and I'm the one to blame for the killing
To say that the problem is Islam is like saying GUNS KILL when the culprit is the person who pulled the trigger
No, it's the MOSLEMS who are the problem
In the San Bernardino massacre it was not the assault rifles which killed. It was the MOSLEM man & wife team who killed
In the Boston Marathon Bombing the killers were not the pressure cooker, nor Islam
It was the MOSLEMS who did the killing
In the Ford Hood killing it was not Islam who did the killing. It was a MOSLEM who killed the soldiers
In WTC of NYC it was not the planes which killed the thousands of people. Again, it was the MOSLEMS who killed
Stop blaming religion or guns or whatever. It is the PEOPLE who killed
No longer I want to see any of my fellow Americans killed by someone related to immigrants
Yes I know, that moslem fucker was born in America, but if his immigrant parents didn't move to America from abroad he wouldn't have been born inside America and kill innocent people!
I know a lot of folks will send hate mail my way. They will call me a hypocrite. They will challenge me to move back to China. They will want to see that I, along as all my children, be thrown out of USA.
I know that will happen, but I am still going to stick to what I have said --- "CLOSE DOWN THE BORDERS"
The current Slashdot is under the strict control of Islam and the moslems
And I prove it with a comment of my own
One of my recent comment - https://slashdot.org/comments.... - was down-modded all the way to '0' as "Flamebait" by the Slashdot Editors, after it was up-modded to "5" Insightful by the registered Slashdot users
The comment itself talked about the danger of criticizing moslems in Europe
It wasn't an attack on moslems or Islam per se
The comment was based on TRUE FACTS (read at the links on the comments to find out) but still, the Slashdot Editors saw it fit to down-mod it all the way to '0' 'Flamebait' _AFTER_ it had been up-modded to '5' by registered Slashdot users
I have been a long time Slashdot user and I can tell you that Slashdot in its original form wasn't like this
Slashdot in its original form wasn't so pro Islam (nor was it anti Islam)
... It would be foolish of them to antagonize such a huge percentage of their users...
Dude, this ain't the first time the online oligarchs have fucked their users, and this ain't the first time Google has fucked their users either
Before Snowden's expose of what NSA has been doing Google was NSA's pet - and if you believe that Google isn't doing something funny regarding their search result I got couple of bridge to sell ya
I do read the comments here and have realize a dichotomy of responses to the same article
Those from the West side of the Pond (USA) tend to see this as a creeping danger, a slippery slope that will end up gobbling up the rights of the individuals
Those from the Right side of the Pond (Europe), on the other hand, tend to espouse your point of view --- that the entire thing is nothing but an 'encouragement', a mere 'suggestion', with 'check and balances', and so on, and so forth
A guy even lament that we from the West side of the Pond are kinda 'over-reacting' to a totally harmless proposal
All I can see from this dichotomy is the difference in the way we were brought up
I am an America but I am a naturalized American. I came from China
In America I find that most of my fellow Americans (those who were born inside the USA) share with me a very strong suspicion against the government
But on the other side of the pond, you Europeans seem to put all your trust on the government --- for you, TPTB is nothing to fear, for TPTB is good, and will work for the good for all
I am not going to tell you that we Americans are right and you are wrong, however, I do need to remind you guys, the Europeans one thing ---
If you put too much trust on someone one day that same someone might betray you and you will be hurt, and hurt bad
Lest you forget, may I bring up the Snowden files?
Of all the info Edward Snowden has given us, one thing stand out --- that power corrupts
Governments, no matter if it is from US or UK or France of Germany, were all involved in the invasion of privacy, in clear violation of the rules
We from the West side of the Pond tend to not trust our government so much because we still retain that important quality you Europeans have long lost --- that sense of ever vigilance
You guys trust your government too much and one day you guys will grow to regret it
... Your pathetic tactics aren't working any more, JEW...
Oh boy, now I'm supposed to be a JEW
If I am a JEW then there will be over 1 Billion JEWS in China as well as more than 300 million other JEWS living inside and outside the many "JEWTOWNS" all over the world
With the sudden increase of 1.3 ~ 1.5 new JEWS I'm sure those running Israel will be happy like a clam
One important caveat: Most of the new JEWS can't pronounce "Fried Rice" correctly but some of them do make the most delicious dimsum this JEW loves so much!
Many thanks for the thought provoking answer to my lamentation
Although I do mourn for the tanking of quality comments in Slashdot I still come back - the type of enlightening comments such as yours is precisely why I am still here
... While I think that, since we're all carrying chip & pin cards, that they should be useable as login credentials, they should not, in any way, be mandatory...
Why don't we go all the way back, and make people wearing the Star of David for easy identification?
Europe criticizes China when the Communist Regime mandated that everyone who register for their weibo services must use their real name
The European parliament mourned for the loss of free speech in China, and poured money to support 'Chinese dissidents', even to the tune of awarding the noble prize to a certain Chinese writer (I read his books, in the Mandarin language, they were pure trash) just because he happens to be a 'Chinese dissident'
And no, I am not a supporter of the Communist Regime of China. I was an opponent of the CCP, and still am
The thing is, if Europe criticized China for the death of freedom they (Europeans) better don't repeat what the CCP has done
Black people say white juries, cops, and judges, can't be impartial all the time. I don't see any inconsistency here
How many of those black people are running for President of the United States?
What does this 'running for president' thing got to do with the issue at hand?
When the blacks can accuse the Whites as 'racists' why can't Trump, a White, accusing a judge with links to a certain hispanic racial movement, 'racist'?
ShanghaiBill, I've read plenty of your comments, but this one, tsk, tsk, tsk! is nothing less than a miserable cop-out
In the view of an ethnic Chinese I do not find Donald J. Trump of being racist
I have had many encounters with racism inside America, I know first hand what racism really is
While Donald J. Trump can be brash, and he acts like an asshole from time to time, he ain't a racist
He's a sociopath
So you ran out of your 'racist taunt' and now switch over to the 'sociopath' rant?
Comparing Donald J. Trump to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary is a much more suitable candidate to be a socialpath than Trump
We don't need a would-be strongman trying to run the country like Putin runs Russia
Don't you tell me what Trump would do because he hasn't done it yet
On the other hand, your idol Hussein Barack Obama has already ruined America!
America under Obama has suffered worse systemic abuse than Russia suffered under Putin
Under Obama, American's liberty, privacy and rights were stripped away
Nowadays even little girls in America, oh yes, American little girls using little girl toilets inside the United States of America have to watch out for grown man wearing bras because Obama says grown man wearing bras have the rights to use little girls toilets
... But a large number of professional programmers didn't learn how to code in a formal school program, either because they're self-taught or because they learned on the job...
... Citation please...
I can only represent myself, for I ain't 'a large number of professional programmers'
But anyway... after I've landed on the American soil as a refugee back in the 1970's the first thing I did was to get a job inside a chinatown restaurant because I didn't have any money
The work in the kitchen was from morning to late night, no shift, but at times we got couple of 'low tide' hours where we get to take some quick nap
As I was not familiar with English (I had spent some time in Hongkong before coming to the States, and had picked up really basic English comprehension there) I couldn't understand most of the publications available at that time (except for the trashy Mandarin newspapers/magazines that they were selling in Chinatown) but I wanted to learn more
On off days I went downtown to some gadget joints, those selling electronic parts, resistors and such, often on 'looksee tour' to get a glimpse of what were there, and over there I picked up some old magazines for cheap
I couldn't understand 90% of the articles on those magazines but I do understand math --- and it were the math / code tease articles that grabbed my attention and I had to carry out all the 'coding' inside my head (CP/M had just been released but I ain't got the money to buy the mainframe to run that thing)
Thanks to that computer-less period I honed my ability to 'code in between the ears' and even today before I typed in the first character I already have a 'program' in between my ears wanting to come out
Since Google's self driving car are running on computers and computer can differentiate different dangerous situations Google should make their cars 'talk' --- like "Watch out, I'm on your left lane!" or 'get the fuck out of my lane, asshole!', or something like that!
... As for those that think this level of simulation is impossible, it isn't...
... Without ANY bugs? Really?
Fact that you questioned the system in itself is a BUG as there shouldn't be anyone or anything asking such kind of question
But as a given system goes, when there exists a bug a patch is always nearby... lots of patches, actually --- look at the people around you, try discussing with them about this universe being a computer simulation and you got.... blank stares, as the patch is designed such that questions that aren't supposed to be asked will never be answered
Slashdot Mirror
I knew Steve Jobs
Everyone who knew Steve Jobs knew that Steve Jobs was definitely ain't a Mr. Nice Guy
But he was effective and whatever he had set out to do, he would do everything to achieve the goal
However abrasive Steve Jobs was, however imperfect Steve Jobs was, there was, and will only be one Steve Jobs
Not going to comment on Intel's Larabee / Knight's Landing issue here because I don't know
From the info as have gathered, the first version of SW64 chip did have some built in cache, but by the new version of SW64 used in the supercomputer, the SW64 has neither L1, nor L2, nor L3 cache
Each core is allocated 12 KB of instruction cache, along with 64 KB of local scratchpad
I've run a bit of diging on the SW64 chip that reportedly powered the new ShenWei supercomputer
Based on the info I've gathered from http://bbs.lemote.com/forum.ph...
Version 1 of SW64 was 'inspired' by DEC's Alpha 21364 architecture instruction
By Version 3 (circa 2010), according to the same source, they have something called EKOPath, which, reportedly integrate AMD's X64 instuctions onto Alpha's platform
As Version 3 of the SW64 chip only comes in (max) 16-core, I believe the SW64 chip that are being used in the ShenWei supercomputer is of the latter version (because they supposed to have 64 cores per node)
Version 1, 2, and 3 of the SW64 chip has L1, L2 and L3 cache built in. The SW64 chips that are being used for the new ShenWei supercomputer reportedly doesn't have L1, L2, nor L3 cache at all
Furthermore, the frequency of chip has also increased from 1.1GHz to 1.45GHz, indicating a possible chip node shrinkage from the 65nm to a possible 28nm node that China currently possesses
That is about what I manage to gather so far
The above was from my (rejected) submission on the same computer
As it is too big I won't quote the entire submitted article here, suffice to give you the link to it - https://slashdot.org/submissio...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe7e...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
http://top500.org/news/china-t...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6...
http://www.netlib.org/utk/peop...
Or my (rejected) submission at https://slashdot.org/submissio...
Saudi Arabia is the biggest paymaster for terrorism
Saudi Arabia is also the biggest paymaster for the imams all over the world
They also fund the millions of madrassa where hundreds of millions of kids are being indoctrinated with the Wahabi ideology which opposes democracy, freedom, equality and is very anti-infidel
Them Moslems had been indoctrinated with all kinds of psychological mumbo-jumbo ever since they were toddlers
I too had been psycho-bombarded with CCP sociological mumbo-jumbo, ever since I was a toddler in China
I could have become an even worse kind of socialist than Bernie Sanders, had I wanted to
Similarly them Moslems also got a lot of chances to rebel. especially Moslems who were from non-Islamic countries
They could have, but they chose not to
Shouldn't they bear the larger share of blame than Islam?
I am a Christian and if I go out and kill people it would be wrong for you to blame Christianity for my killing of other people. It is *ME* who do the killing, and I'm the one to blame for the killing
To say that the problem is Islam is like saying GUNS KILL when the culprit is the person who pulled the trigger
No, it's the MOSLEMS who are the problem
In the San Bernardino massacre it was not the assault rifles which killed. It was the MOSLEM man & wife team who killed
In the Boston Marathon Bombing the killers were not the pressure cooker, nor Islam
It was the MOSLEMS who did the killing
In the Ford Hood killing it was not Islam who did the killing. It was a MOSLEM who killed the soldiers
In WTC of NYC it was not the planes which killed the thousands of people. Again, it was the MOSLEMS who killed
Stop blaming religion or guns or whatever. It is the PEOPLE who killed
I am an immigrant. I came from China.
I will say this --- Close down the border
Yes, I am saying this, as an immigrant
No longer I want to see America suffer
No longer I want to see any of my fellow Americans killed by someone related to immigrants
Yes I know, that moslem fucker was born in America, but if his immigrant parents didn't move to America from abroad he wouldn't have been born inside America and kill innocent people!
I know a lot of folks will send hate mail my way. They will call me a hypocrite. They will challenge me to move back to China. They will want to see that I, along as all my children, be thrown out of USA.
I know that will happen, but I am still going to stick to what I have said --- "CLOSE DOWN THE BORDERS"
The current Slashdot is under the strict control of Islam and the moslems
And I prove it with a comment of my own
One of my recent comment - https://slashdot.org/comments.... - was down-modded all the way to '0' as "Flamebait" by the Slashdot Editors, after it was up-modded to "5" Insightful by the registered Slashdot users
The comment itself talked about the danger of criticizing moslems in Europe
It wasn't an attack on moslems or Islam per se
The comment was based on TRUE FACTS (read at the links on the comments to find out) but still, the Slashdot Editors saw it fit to down-mod it all the way to '0' 'Flamebait' _AFTER_ it had been up-modded to '5' by registered Slashdot users
I have been a long time Slashdot user and I can tell you that Slashdot in its original form wasn't like this
Slashdot in its original form wasn't so pro Islam (nor was it anti Islam)
... then FBI, then DEA ...
The system rots, from within
Dude, this ain't the first time the online oligarchs have fucked their users, and this ain't the first time Google has fucked their users either
Before Snowden's expose of what NSA has been doing Google was NSA's pet - and if you believe that Google isn't doing something funny regarding their search result I got couple of bridge to sell ya
I do read the comments here and have realize a dichotomy of responses to the same article
Those from the West side of the Pond (USA) tend to see this as a creeping danger, a slippery slope that will end up gobbling up the rights of the individuals
Those from the Right side of the Pond (Europe), on the other hand, tend to espouse your point of view --- that the entire thing is nothing but an 'encouragement', a mere 'suggestion', with 'check and balances', and so on, and so forth
A guy even lament that we from the West side of the Pond are kinda 'over-reacting' to a totally harmless proposal
All I can see from this dichotomy is the difference in the way we were brought up
I am an America but I am a naturalized American. I came from China
In America I find that most of my fellow Americans (those who were born inside the USA) share with me a very strong suspicion against the government
But on the other side of the pond, you Europeans seem to put all your trust on the government --- for you, TPTB is nothing to fear, for TPTB is good, and will work for the good for all
I am not going to tell you that we Americans are right and you are wrong, however, I do need to remind you guys, the Europeans one thing ---
If you put too much trust on someone one day that same someone might betray you and you will be hurt, and hurt bad
Lest you forget, may I bring up the Snowden files?
Of all the info Edward Snowden has given us, one thing stand out --- that power corrupts
Governments, no matter if it is from US or UK or France of Germany, were all involved in the invasion of privacy, in clear violation of the rules
We from the West side of the Pond tend to not trust our government so much because we still retain that important quality you Europeans have long lost --- that sense of ever vigilance
You guys trust your government too much and one day you guys will grow to regret it
Oh boy, now I'm supposed to be a JEW
If I am a JEW then there will be over 1 Billion JEWS in China as well as more than 300 million other JEWS living inside and outside the many "JEWTOWNS" all over the world
With the sudden increase of 1.3 ~ 1.5 new JEWS I'm sure those running Israel will be happy like a clam
One important caveat: Most of the new JEWS can't pronounce "Fried Rice" correctly but some of them do make the most delicious dimsum this JEW loves so much!
Many thanks for the thought provoking answer to my lamentation
Although I do mourn for the tanking of quality comments in Slashdot I still come back - the type of enlightening comments such as yours is precisely why I am still here
Thanks again!!
Why don't we go all the way back, and make people wearing the Star of David for easy identification?
Europe criticizes China when the Communist Regime mandated that everyone who register for their weibo services must use their real name
The European parliament mourned for the loss of free speech in China, and poured money to support 'Chinese dissidents', even to the tune of awarding the noble prize to a certain Chinese writer (I read his books, in the Mandarin language, they were pure trash) just because he happens to be a 'Chinese dissident'
And no, I am not a supporter of the Communist Regime of China. I was an opponent of the CCP, and still am
The thing is, if Europe criticized China for the death of freedom they (Europeans) better don't repeat what the CCP has done
sigh!
In Europe and Canada criticizing the Jews is of no consequence. In fact the Jews have become their standard boogieman to be attacked
The killing of Jews is no problem either - in actual fact, part of the European continent becomes hyper-euphoric every time Jews got murdered
But if you ever dare to criticize the moslems, or Islam, you will get into trouble
BIG TROUBLE !
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
https://news.vice.com/article/...
http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/...
http://www.breitbart.com/natio...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....
Is Hollander a Jew?
You guys are despicable, totally despicable
That's because the US has a history of white supremacy
Cut the motherfucking crap!
I ain't a White
I am a Chinese
And I am getting super tired of the 'history of White supremacy' bullshit
So I have spent some decades inside the country filled with the so-called 'history of White Supremacy'
Did it stop me from climbing the social ladder? Nope
Did it stop me from achieving my goals? Nope
Did it stop me from doing the things I had wanted to do all along? Nope
What the fuck is wrong with you guys who were born right here inside the USA?
If you can't make it, stop blaming the history or whatever/whoever fuck you want to blame
Instead, you should blame yourself for being a USELESS FUCK!!
Black people say white juries, cops, and judges, can't be impartial all the time. I don't see any inconsistency here
How many of those black people are running for President of the United States?
What does this 'running for president' thing got to do with the issue at hand?
When the blacks can accuse the Whites as 'racists' why can't Trump, a White, accusing a judge with links to a certain hispanic racial movement, 'racist'?
ShanghaiBill, I've read plenty of your comments, but this one, tsk, tsk, tsk! is nothing less than a miserable cop-out
Want to bring the issue of race? Bring it on!!
He's unrepentantly racist
In the view of an ethnic Chinese I do not find Donald J. Trump of being racist
I have had many encounters with racism inside America, I know first hand what racism really is
While Donald J. Trump can be brash, and he acts like an asshole from time to time, he ain't a racist
He's a sociopath
So you ran out of your 'racist taunt' and now switch over to the 'sociopath' rant?
Comparing Donald J. Trump to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary is a much more suitable candidate to be a socialpath than Trump
We don't need a would-be strongman trying to run the country like Putin runs Russia
Don't you tell me what Trump would do because he hasn't done it yet
On the other hand, your idol Hussein Barack Obama has already ruined America!
America under Obama has suffered worse systemic abuse than Russia suffered under Putin
Under Obama, American's liberty, privacy and rights were stripped away
Nowadays even little girls in America, oh yes, American little girls using little girl toilets inside the United States of America have to watch out for grown man wearing bras because Obama says grown man wearing bras have the rights to use little girls toilets
Google knows what it is doing
It needs to be truthful to their future overlords
I can only represent myself, for I ain't 'a large number of professional programmers'
But anyway ... after I've landed on the American soil as a refugee back in the 1970's the first thing I did was to get a job inside a chinatown restaurant because I didn't have any money
The work in the kitchen was from morning to late night, no shift, but at times we got couple of 'low tide' hours where we get to take some quick nap
As I was not familiar with English (I had spent some time in Hongkong before coming to the States, and had picked up really basic English comprehension there) I couldn't understand most of the publications available at that time (except for the trashy Mandarin newspapers/magazines that they were selling in Chinatown) but I wanted to learn more
On off days I went downtown to some gadget joints, those selling electronic parts, resistors and such, often on 'looksee tour' to get a glimpse of what were there, and over there I picked up some old magazines for cheap
I couldn't understand 90% of the articles on those magazines but I do understand math --- and it were the math / code tease articles that grabbed my attention and I had to carry out all the 'coding' inside my head (CP/M had just been released but I ain't got the money to buy the mainframe to run that thing)
Thanks to that computer-less period I honed my ability to 'code in between the ears' and even today before I typed in the first character I already have a 'program' in between my ears wanting to come out
Only honking is not enough
Since Google's self driving car are running on computers and computer can differentiate different dangerous situations Google should make their cars 'talk' --- like "Watch out, I'm on your left lane!" or 'get the fuck out of my lane, asshole!', or something like that!
Fact that you questioned the system in itself is a BUG as there shouldn't be anyone or anything asking such kind of question
But as a given system goes, when there exists a bug a patch is always nearby ... lots of patches, actually --- look at the people around you, try discussing with them about this universe being a computer simulation and you got .... blank stares , as the patch is designed such that questions that aren't supposed to be asked will never be answered