Supercomputer 64-bit Design

[stefanluik]

Hello,

I'm thinking about developing a supercomputer with such features:
- 64 bit epiphany
- maximal expandable
- finest possible technology
- I think the speed of the board2board connection couldn't be very faster

And I have some questions about:
- is it meaningful making a parallela processor with 64-bit, max. amount of cores and only one channel in each 4 directions to a next processor ?
- what could be the problems of such a design ?
- are there any other issues ?

Stefan

[nickoppen]

Hi Stefan,

Have a look what these guys are doing: . Their web site has not changed in a while so i don't know if they are still active.

nick

[stefanluik]

Hello,

what version of Epiphany could be interesting for Parallella users/community to produce ?
- 64-bit
- maximal expandable (Ids)
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Stefan

[stefanluik]

One Idea is to simulate a neural network in hardware.
So the main features here is, to have:
- small core for just a little calculation
- maximum amount of cores
- fast connections
- less bottlenecks in connection
…

Stefan

[stefanluik]

[sebraa]

Are you thinking of designing a supercomputer or are you just listing features? Do you realize that some of the features you mention contradict each other?

[stefanluik]

[Melkhior]

[nickoppen]

Hi Stefan,

I posted the link in case you were not aware of the work being done by Rex. If you want to put the time into looking at a "64-bit Epiphany" it would be tragic to put in all that effort and end up with something pretty much like what Rex is doing. If you had a look at Rex's design decisions and chose to explore alternative possibilities then the whole community could benefit from evaluating your design compared to Rex's compared to Adapteva's.

nick

[stefanluik]

Hello all,

thanks for replies.

Do anyone have additional comments ?
What could be interesting ?
What could be problems ?

Stefan