From f61a226f5f68abdfda800fc2bf0fa7246fa17f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 16:31:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- conferences/cineca2021.mdwn | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn b/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn index 10daf21d9..27e33dc9a 100644 --- a/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn +++ b/conferences/cineca2021.mdwn @@ -1,8 +1,25 @@ # 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. +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 iconic +Supercomputer ISA: Cray-style Vectors, known historically +for compact program size and massive number-crunching +capability. + +Libre-SOC is working under the close watchful eye of the OpenPOWER +Foundation to develop Draft Extensions to the Power ISA, extending +the already-proven Supercomputing-grade Power ISA with Cray-style +Vectors.  This talk will give a brief overview of the progress and +roadmap. # 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. +Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology. +He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computing +devices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, in +Theory of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put that +education to good use in the form of the Libre-SOC +Project: an entirely Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based on +OpenPOWER. He writes poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theory +for the past 36 years in his spare time. -- 2.30.2