Parts/CPUs/Sunway SW26010
CPUs · Sunway · 2016
Sunway SW26010
260-core manycore processor. TaihuLight was the first No. 1 built entirely on Chinese-designed processors.
Why this part
260 cores on one die, arranged as four groups of one management element plus an eight-by-eight mesh of 64 compute elements, each with a small scratchpad instead of a cache hierarchy. This is not a CPU with accelerators attached; it is the accelerator and the host on the same piece of silicon, seven years before that became fashionable. Every part of it is domestic: the ISA, the design, the fabrication at SMIC, the fabric and the operating system, and Sunway TaihuLight is the first system in this dataset to score 1.0 on the domestic-substitution index. It was also brutally hard to program, which is the cost of owning your whole stack.
Systems using this part
- Systems
- 1
- Rmax underneath
- 93.01 PFlop/s
- Units recorded
- 40,960
| System | Role | Country | Units | System Rmax | Supplied by | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunway TaihuLight 2016-06 | CPU | China | 40,960 | 93.01 PFlop/s | NRCPC | #87 → |
“Units recorded” sums only the edges where a public source states a quantity. It is a floor, not a total, and should never be read as installed base.