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SC104 Real black technology? Cell processor!

In the application solution document of the asynchronous structure of the central processing unit array and supercomputer, Nanlin Guiyi discovered more information, and surprises followed.

This document begins with introducing processors, which are hardly aware of. Because processors are completely different from the 86-frame processors manufactured by N Company!

The processor originated in 2001, ten years ago, and was designed and developed by the super-era microprocessors jointly designed and developed by Sony and Toshiba.

At the beginning of design, the company released powerful parameter information for the processor. For example, the computing power of a processing will reach trillions of floating-point operations per second, which is the computing power of 1ps.

Even in today's era, this data value is very terrifying. What's more, the processor design was born in 2001. In 2001, the company's supercomputer Earth Simulator, the number one in the world's top 500 supercomputers, had only reached 36ps in the computing power.

If this is the case, the processor will not attract too much attention, nor will it be called a black technology. What really shocks the world is that the company announced that the processor, and the internal hardware natively supports special distributed computing technology.

Simply put, through this technology, processors and processors can be seamlessly connected together to form an overall cluster and share each other's computing power.

Simply put, according to the company's design expectations, the overall system formed by 36 processors in series can rank the number one supercomputer Earth Simulator at that time.

Such design solutions and technical descriptions shocked the entire technology community at that time. However, the technology community did not believe in companies, but believed that companies were bragging.

When three years passed and the company completed the processor samples and joined Sony to formally test the processor, it once again shocked the world.

The processor completely subverted the design of the 86 framework and adopted the company's own r framework. In addition, the processor's instruction set is not a complex instruction set, but a streamlined instruction set.

A streamlined instruction set is more suitable for supercomputer systems. Almost all supercomputers are affiliated with the system.

With the advantages of streamlining instruction sets and r frameworks, the processors completely surpassed the most advanced personal processors and server processors of N's company at that time.

However, in terms of finished products, the company has made reservations, and the computing power of each processor has dropped to 0256ps, which is one-quarter of the design plan.

To put it simply, the original design plan was 0256ps computing power, but each processor planned four chips. However, only one chip was retained in the end.

Even so, at that time, the computing power of the processor was still at the top of the world. Because, the most powerful processor of the company, the computing power of a single chip, was only 0015ps, and it was no match for the processor at all.

What's worse is that n-produced processors far exceed processors in terms of power consumption!

According to the tests of the company and Sony, in the same test environment, if the processor generates the same computing power as the processor of the company N, the power consumption of the processor is only one-tenth of that of the n processor.

The energy consumption of supercomputers is also a big problem!

The energy consumption of super-large supercomputers basically requires dedicated power lines, expensive backup power systems, and circuit protection systems. If the power consumption is reduced to one tenth, it will be a huge advantage for the construction, operation costs, and post-maintenance costs of supercomputers.

In addition, the processor has an advantage that cannot be ignored: the low power consumption of the processor, the low heat generation and low heat generation brought by the processor, and the investment in the heat dissipation equipment is reduced!

These are the advantages of the processor!

In the era of that time, the processor was a genuine black technology product, with a variety of epoch-making product features.

It's a pity that the processor is only used in Sony 3 gaming consoles, which has caused huge limitations and thus affected the promotion of the processor.

In addition, in the individual market, n shares the world with the company, and n forms an alliance with Microsoft, which fully supports 86 frameworks and complex instruction sets.

Various reasons made the processor end in vain, and it only shone brightly on the 3 game console, but it disappeared into the long river of history. Even the company finally announced helplessly that it would stop developing the processor.

In the era of 2011, the processor seemed to be like an ancient artifact, but such a document was protected by very advanced real-time chaotic random algorithms. Why is this?

Nan Lin Guiyi continued to check it out, but he did not forget that the title of this document contained a supercomputer application solution!

As Nan Linguiyi read the document, he finally knew why this document uses advanced password protection, and it also loads the protection of targeted network connections and network positioning software.

Because, this document actually talks about the feasibility discussion of using processors to build supercomputers and the implementation of strategy solutions.

Looking at these contents, Nan Lin Guiyi's breathing became rapid!

According to Moore's Law in the chip industry, under the same price conditions, the performance of integrated circuits doubles every eighteen to twenty-four months. Even if the processor was born in 2004, it was at least three Moore's Law cycles apart from the 2011 era. Assuming that the computing power of the processor is 1, after three Moore's Law cycles, after three times, the computing power is not increased three times, but 8 times.

But in fact, did the 2011 CPU really surpass the ancient artifact-like processor?

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