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Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer by ViralBShah on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:36AM (#23601368)
That's pretty cool! That probably means that applications will have an easier time. Looks like it has 512-bit SIMD.

I wonder what BLAS they are using, and if the contributions are open sourced.

Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer by gnufx on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:44PM (#23603232)
(SVE isn't 512-bit SIMD like AVX512.) I don't know what BLAS they're using, though I know they've long worked on their own, but BLIS has gained SVE support recently, for what it's worth.
Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer by floatboth on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:25PM (#23604958)
SVE is whatever width the chip designer wants, Fujitsu's implementation is 512-bit according to AnandTech
Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer by gnufx on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:26PM (#23606925)
I know, but it's different apart from coming in different hardware widths, as ARM techies will gush.
Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer by jabl on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:25AM (#23610830)
Yes, SVE, like the RISC-V vector extension, is a "real" vector ISA, with things like vector length register (no need for a scalar loop epilog), scatter/gather memory ops for sparse matrix work, mask registers for if-conversion, looser alignment requirements (no/less need for loop prologues).

That being said, apart from becoming wider, AVX-NNN has also gotten more "real" vector features with every generation. The difference might not be as huge anymore.