conferences/cineca2021.mdwn

   1 # Title:  An introduction to Libre-SOC and Cray-style Vectors for OpenPOWER
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   3 The current HPC / Supercomputer market has few top contenders:
   4 China ICT Loongson 3, Intel / AMD x86 and IBM POWER9/10.
   5 None of these have the features of one of the most iconic
   6 Supercomputer ISA: Cray-style Vectors, known historically
   7 for compact program size and massive number-crunching
   8 capability.
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  10 Libre-SOC is working under the close watchful eye of the OpenPOWER
  11 Foundation to develop Draft Extensions to the Power ISA, extending
  12 the already-proven Supercomputing-grade Power ISA with Cray-style
  13 Vectors.  This talk will give a brief overview of the progress and
  14 roadmap.
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  16 # Bio
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  18 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology.
  19 He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computing
  20 devices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, in
  21 Theory of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put that
  22 education to good use in the form of the Libre-SOC
  23 Project: an entirely Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based on
  24 OpenPOWER. He writes poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theory
  25 for the past 36 years in his spare time.