From 386a16049f7e4846fc73a9016558a62d0a59d7c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 16:29:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- conferences/cineca2021.mdwn | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 conferences/cineca2021.mdwn diff --git a/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn b/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..10daf21d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Title:  An introduction to Libre-SOC and Cray-style Vectors for OpenPOWER + +The current HPC / Supercomputer market has few top contenders:China ICT Loongson 3, Intel / AMD x86 and IBM POWER9/10.None of these have the features of one of the most iconicSupercomputer ISA: Cray-style Vectors, known historicallyfor compact program size and massive number-crunchingcapability. +Libre-SOC is working under the close watchful eye of the OpenPOWERFoundation to develop Draft Extensions to the Power ISA, extendingthe already-proven Supercomputing-grade Power ISA with Cray-styleVectors.  This talk will give a brief overview of the progress androadmap. + +# Bio + +Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology.He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computingdevices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, inTheory of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put thateducation to good use in the form of the Libre-SOCProject: an entirely Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based onOpenPOWER. He writes poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theoryfor the past 36 years in his spare time. -- 2.30.2