Is RISC-V ready for HPC prime-time: Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU

2023/09/01 by Nick Brown, Maurice Jamieson, Joseph Lee +3 · 2 voices · 6 citations
Computer Science · #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Numerical Methods and Algorithms

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3624062.3624234

Abstract

The Sophon SG2042 is the world’s first commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU for high performance workloads and an important question is whether the SG2042 has the potential to encourage the HPC community to embrace RISC-V.

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Discussions

• Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU [hn, 102 points, 67 comments]
• Is RISC-V ready for HPC prime-time: Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU arxiv.org/abs/2309.00381 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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