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Jun 24, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
1/11 Ever wondered how Supercomputers multiply? Efficient multiplication is a critical part of traditional high performance computing as well as machine learning. Let's look at the #IBM Blue Gene/Q, which led the #Top500 and #Green500 in the late 2000s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Blue_…
2/11 IBM Open Sourced the core to Blue Gene/Q (the @OpenPOWERorg A2I) so it offers a fantastic insight into a CPU that taped out at frequency and in volume. The #VHDL for the core is available at: github.com/OpenPOWERFound…