http://insidehpc.com/2010/01/20/china-aims-to-try-again-with-petascale-super-from-longsoon-chips/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2010/01/20/china-aims-to-try-again-with-petascale-super-from-longsoon-chips/#comment-204276 John West Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:43:24 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9629#comment-204276 Well, porting (as in compiles and runs correctly) is different from running efficiently. MIPS isn't even a processor family broken out by name any more in the Top500 (it disappeared after June 2004, when it had 3 systems), and the "other" category has 0.2% of the Top500. Hard to argue that there is a current base of effective MIPS application software in HPC. A knowledgeable person might be able to argue that because MIPS is still very popular in embedded applications that getting the software together for drivers and stuff will be less of a challenge, but that's out of my depth. Well, porting (as in compiles and runs correctly) is different from running efficiently. MIPS isn’t even a processor family broken out by name any more in the Top500 (it disappeared after June 2004, when it had 3 systems), and the “other” category has 0.2% of the Top500. Hard to argue that there is a current base of effective MIPS application software in HPC. A knowledgeable person might be able to argue that because MIPS is still very popular in embedded applications that getting the software together for drivers and stuff will be less of a challenge, but that’s out of my depth.

]]> http://insidehpc.com/2010/01/20/china-aims-to-try-again-with-petascale-super-from-longsoon-chips/#comment-204181 anon Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:35:20 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9629#comment-204181 SiCortex was MIPS. Debian GNU/Linux and others run fine on MIPS. The software's already ported. *shrug* SiCortex was MIPS. Debian GNU/Linux and others run fine on MIPS. The software’s already ported. *shrug*

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