In the document "Application Scheme of Asynchronous Structure CPU Series Array and Supercomputer", Nanlin Guiyi found more information, and surprises followed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This document begins with an introduction to the cell processor, which is almost unknown to the general public. Because, the cell processor and the x86 frame processor manufactured by Intel are completely different things!

The cell processor originated in 2001, that is, ten years ago, by IBM, Sony, Toshiba, the three giants, designed and developed the ultra-modern microprocessor.

At the beginning of the design, IBM released strong parameter information for the cell processor. For example, a cell will perform trillions of floating-point operations per second, which is 1 tflops.

Even in today's era, this data value is very terrifying. What's more, the design of the Cell processor was born in 2001. In 2001, the world's top 500 supercomputers, NEC's supercomputer Earth Simulator, only reached 36Tflops.

If that's all it takes, the Cell processor can't attract much attention, and it can't be called a black technology, what really shocked the world is that IBM announced that the Cell processor, the internal hardware natively supports special distributed computing technology.

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

To put it more simply, according to IBM's design vision, 36 Cell processors were connected in series to form an overall system, which could match the number one supercomputer at the time, the Earth Simulator.

Such design solutions and technical descriptions shocked the entire scientific and technological community at the time. However, the tech community doesn't believe IBM and thinks IBM is bragging.

When three years passed, IBM completed the sample of the Cell processor and joined forces with Sony to officially test the Cell processor, it shocked the world again.

The Cell processor completely subverts the design of the x86 framework and instead adopts IBM's own Power framework. In addition, the instruction set of the Cell processor is not a CISC complex instruction set, but a RISC reduced instruction set.

RISC reduced instruction set, more suitable for supercomputer systems, almost all supercomputers, belong to the RISC system.

With the advantages of RISC's reduced instruction set and POWER framework, the Cell processor comprehensively surpassed Intel's most advanced personal processors and server processors at the time.

However, in terms of the finished product, IBM has made reservations, and the computing power of each cell processor has dropped to 0.256 tflops, which is a quarter of the design solution.

To put it bluntly, the original design is 0.256Tflops of computing power, but each cell processor is planned to have four chips. In the end, though, only one chip remained.

Even so, at that time, the computing power of the cell processor was still the top of the world. Because, Intel's most powerful processor, the computing power of a single chip, is only 0.015Tflops, which is not the opponent of the Cell processor at all.

To make matters worse, Intel produces processors that, in terms of power consumption, far surpass Cell processors!

According to the test of IBM and Sony, in the same test environment, if the cell processor and Intel processor produce the same computing power, the power consumption of the cell processor is only one-tenth of that of the Intel processor.

The energy consumption of supercomputers is also a big problem!

The energy consumption of ultra-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 cost, operating expenses, and later maintenance costs of the supercomputer.

In addition, the cell processor has another advantage that cannot be ignored: the low power consumption of the cell processor brings low heat generation; Low heat generation, and reduce the investment in heat dissipation equipment!

These are the advantages of the Cell processor!

At that time, the cell processor could be described as a genuine black technology product, with a variety of epoch-making product features.

It's a pity that the Cell processor is only used in Sony's PS3 game console, which has caused huge limitations, which has affected the promotion of the Cell processor.

In addition, in the private market, Intel and AMD share the world equally, and the alliance formed by Intel and Microsoft fully supports the X86 framework and CISC complex instruction set.

For various reasons, the Cell processor ended up without a problem, only shining on the PS3 game console, but it disappeared in the long river of history, and even IBM finally reluctantly announced that it would stop developing the Cell processor.

In the era of 2011, the cell processor seemed to be an ancient artifact, but such a data was protected by a very advanced real-time chaotic random algorithm, why is this?

Nanlin Guiyi continued to look at it, and he didn't forget that the title of this document contains a supercomputer application plan!

As Nan Lin Guiyi read the document, he finally knew why this document was protected by advanced passwords, and it was also loaded with the protection of directional network connection and network location software.

Because, this document actually talks about the feasibility of using cell processors to build supercomputers, as well as the implementation of strategic solutions.

Looking at these contents, Nanlin Guiyi's breathing became short!

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 cell processor was born in 2004, there is at least three Moore's Law cycles between the era and 2011, assuming that the computing power of the Cell processor is 1, after three Moore's Law cycles, after three times doubled, the computing power is not tripled, but increased by 8 times.

But in fact, does the CPU in 2011 really surpass the CELL processor like an ancient artifact?

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