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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
1 of 1 edges disclose a quantity
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.

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