A Multicore Processor Designed For PetaFLOPS Computation

[qwerrty]

A Multicore Processor Designed For
PetaFLOPS Computation

Weiwu Hu

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Loongson Technologies Corporation Limited
hww@ict.ac.cn

Contents
„
*Background
„*The Scalable Godson-3 Multicore Architecture
„*The Vector Extension of the CPU Core
„*HPCs Based on Godson-3
//www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2010/ctrbs/hu.pdf

HPCs based on Godson-3

„Personal TeraFLOPS HPC
– Desktop HPC
„
PetaFLOPS in 2011 based on Godson-3B
– 10,000 Godson-3B Chips
„
10 PetaFLOPS in 2013/2014 based on Godson-3C
– 30,000 Godson-3C Chips

16-core Godson-3C

16 four-issue 64-bit Core
2*256-bit Vector Ext. per core
1.5GHz@28nm
384GFLOPS@15W
4 DDR3, 4 HT Controllers
To be taped out 2011

 

[TechLahore]

Very excited about seeing this processor in commercial systems. It is the spiritual successor to the MIPS RISC architecture, which was a series a processors I really liked!

 

[CardSharp]

Gosh does anyone in the industry want to explain the significance of what was posted?

 

[ao333]

Gosh does anyone in the industry want to explain the significance of what was posted?

A company running off of American-imported Italian-French owned production lines in Swizerland with heavy Japanese technical assistance is the last thing you guys need. But then again, what are the alternatives? The semiconductor industry is monopolized by the US and Japan. France, Italy, Korea and Taiwan rip off of either one or both. So it's all right for you guys to do the same.

That aside, they have no military significance given their commercial instruction sets. These processors are suitable for portable devices wired to a network such as netbooks, and digital TVs. Progress in this field may expand its use into servers. I think that's the main objective of the developer given you guys' current position in the network equipment manufacturing sector.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

A company running off of American-imported Italian-French owned production lines in Swizerland with heavy Japanese technical assistance is the last thing you guys need. But then again, what are the alternatives? The semiconductor industry is monopolized by the US and Japan. France, Italy, Korea and Taiwan rips off of one or both. So it's all right.

Except US, the rest are all bunch of copy cats, so they don't have the right to say that China copies their technology.

US always imposes the technology embargo on China, so don't claim that China copies on US either.

 

[Speeder 2]

A company running off of American-imported Italian-French owned production lines in Swizerland with heavy Japanese technical assistance is the last thing you guys need. But then again, what are the alternatives? The semiconductor industry is monopolized by the US and Japan. France, Italy, Korea and Taiwan rips off of one or both. So it's all right.

A chip is a chip and a win is a win.

Winner goes home fcuk the prom queen, and

you can go cry me a river!

 

[Speeder 2]

Except US, the rest are all bunch of copy cats,....

??


By definiton, it should be "except the # 1s in each fields, the rest are all bunch of copy cats,...."

 

[ao333]

Err... -_-

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

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By definiton, it should be "except the # 1s in each fields, the rest are all bunch of copy cats,...."

Japan/France/Korea, all those countries were known to copy US technology, now they claim that China copies their technology? Gimme a break, a copy cat doesn't have the right to label other as copy cat.

 

[qwerrty]

another multi-core chip also in develpment, more complex..

“Preliminary investigation of optimizing molecular dynamics simulation on Godson-T many-core processor”
*ttp://cacs.usc.edu/education/cs653/GodsonT-UCHPC.pdf
*ttp://cacs.usc.edu/education/cs653/Peng-GodsonT-UCHPC10.pdf

 

[Speeder 2]

self-delete

 

[gpit]

A company running off of American-imported Italian-French owned production lines in Swizerland with heavy Japanese technical assistance is the last thing you guys need. But then again, what are the alternatives? The semiconductor industry is monopolized by the US and Japan. France, Italy, Korea and Taiwan rip off of either one or both. So it's all right for you guys to do the same.

That aside, they have no military significance given their commercial instruction sets. These processors are suitable for portable devices wired to a network such as netbooks, and digital TVs. Progress in this field may expand its use into servers. I think that's the main objective of the developer given you guys' current position in the network equipment manufacturing sector.

Buddy, your claim is not quite there.

China is pretty strong in fab (foundries), yet the industrial trend has clearly shifted to fabless. Fabless semiconductor company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To me, fab is like muscle and fabless the brain.

China is a late starter of fabless, and design is the essence of it. Please check this out Chinese fabless semiconductor industry using innovation to maintain re

Excerpt:

China's fabless IC industry in 2009 will expand to 42 billion U.S. dollars, 3.4 billion during 2008, up 24.2%. In contrast, China's overall semiconductor market in 2009 will decline 6.8% to 68.2 billion U.S. dollars .

Foundry rank 2009 Foundry model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rank(2009) Company - Foundry Type - Country of origin - Revenue (million $USD) 2009 2008 2007

1 TSMC Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 8,989 10,556 9,813
2 UMC Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 2,815 3,070 3,430
3 Chartered(1) Pure-play SingaporeSingapore 1,540 1,743 1,458
4 GlobalFoundries Pure-play United StatesUSA 1,101 0 0
5 SMIC Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 1,075 1,353 1,550
6 Dongbu Pure-play South KoreaSouth Korea 395 490 510
7 Vanguard[disambiguation needed] Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 382 511 486
8 IBM IDM United StatesUSA 335 400 570
9 Samsung IDM South KoreaSouth Korea 325 370 355
10 Grace Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 310 335 310
11 He Jian Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 305 345 330
12 Tower Semiconductors Pure-play IsraelIsrael 292 252 231
13 HHNEC Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 290 350 335
14 SSMC Pure-play SingaporeSingapore 280 340 359
15 Texas Instruments IDM United StatesUSA 250 315 450
16 X-Fab Pure-play GermanyGermany 223 368 410
17 MagnaChip IDM South KoreaSouth Korea 220 290 322

 

[ao333]

Buddy, your claim is not quite there.

China is pretty strong in fab (foundries), yet the industrial trend has clearly shifted to fabless. Fabless semiconductor company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To me, fab is like muscle and fabless the brain.

China is a late starter of fabless, and design is the essence of it. Please check this out Chinese fabless semiconductor industry using innovation to maintain re

Excerpt:


Foundry rank 2009 Foundry model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rank(2009) Company - Foundry Type - Country of origin - Revenue (million $USD) 2009 2008 2007

1 TSMC Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 8,989 10,556 9,813
2 UMC Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 2,815 3,070 3,430
3 Chartered(1) Pure-play SingaporeSingapore 1,540 1,743 1,458
4 GlobalFoundries Pure-play United StatesUSA 1,101 0 0
5 SMIC Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 1,075 1,353 1,550
6 Dongbu Pure-play South KoreaSouth Korea 395 490 510
7 Vanguard[disambiguation needed] Pure-play Republic of ChinaTaiwan 382 511 486
8 IBM IDM United StatesUSA 335 400 570
9 Samsung IDM South KoreaSouth Korea 325 370 355
10 Grace Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 310 335 310
11 He Jian Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 305 345 330
12 Tower Semiconductors Pure-play IsraelIsrael 292 252 231
13 HHNEC Pure-play People's Republic of ChinaChina 290 350 335
14 SSMC Pure-play SingaporeSingapore 280 340 359
15 Texas Instruments IDM United StatesUSA 250 315 450
16 X-Fab Pure-play GermanyGermany 223 368 410
17 MagnaChip IDM South KoreaSouth Korea 220 290 322

We're not talking about an Ipod assembly line here...

 

[qwerrty]

he's not talking about ipod assembly line either.

SMIC Extends 45nm Offerings to 40nm and 55nm

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) today announced that it will extend its 45-nanometer bulk complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies to 40nm and 55nm geometries. These new processes will complement SMIC's existing offerings to better support customer demand worldwide, including in the fast-growing China market. Applications include multimedia products, graphics chips, chipsets, and mobile devices such as handsets integrated with 3G/4G.
SMIC Logo

"Our 45nm technology has been implemented at SMIC's 300mm facility in Shanghai ahead of schedule and we look forward to a similar result at these additional geometries," said SMIC's President and CEO, Dr. Richard Chang. "These new offerings provide our current and new customers a customized set of solutions to meet their diverse product design-in needs."
*ttp://www.legitreviews.com/news/6640/

Since the last funding round, AMEC has focused on positioning its Primo D-RIE™ Etch tool at customer sites. Today, five companies in Asia have installed the system. They include foundries and memory IC companies fabricating devices at nodes of 65 nm and 45 nm, with extendibility to 32 nm and beyond. Repeat orders have already been received and smooth system start-ups are underway at the customers’ respective fabs. Additional tools are slated for delivery throughout 2010. Some will go to existing customers for volume-production; others are bound for new customers.
*ttp://www.amec-inc.com/news/list_p06.php
*ttp://www.amec-inc.com/

 

[ao333]

he's not talking about ipod assembly line either.

If you're talking chipsets then even India has the tech to manufacture them. You guys don't have the capability to fab processors, hence the argument.

AMEC isn't Chinese, not even Taiwanese. If you're talking foreign foundries in China, then even Intel has one in Dalian, somewhere near Beijing if I recall correctly.

The semiconductor tech path is as so:

Processor wafers (US,Japan/rip-offs thereof) > Memory wafers (Korea,Taiwan,UK,France,Italy/rip-offs thereof) > Chipset wafers (everyone else)

*Russian and Israel military processors are simply American-modded ones.

You can't really ask chipset fabs to produce processors. And seriously, you can clearly spot the circuits on your motherboard, but try cracking up a CPU and you won't see the lines, unless you scrutinize it under a magnifying glass.

In any case, SMIC's fabs under ToT from TSMC, which in turn fabs under ToT from the US. It really isn't Chinese at all.