When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of functionality with room for some originality, and there is true open source. …
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. …
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. …
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
As server chips have evolved from simple processors into complex, heterogeneous SoCs, it has become a lot more challenging to optimize the software running on them. …
In a broad sense, the history of computing is the constant search for the ideal system architecture. …
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