Re:Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
by gnufx on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:44PM
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(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
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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
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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
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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.
I wonder what BLAS they are using, and if the contributions are open sourced.