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CPU-Z’s Inadequate Benchmark
CPU-Z is a hardware information tool from a company called CPUID, not to be confused with the CPUID instruction. Besides showing basic CPU, motherboard, and memory information, CPU-Z features a...
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Core to Core Latency Data on Large Systems
Multicore CPUs have to give user programs a way to synchronize between different cores, and ensure a coherent view of memory. A write from one core has to be made visible to others, even though each...
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ARM’s Cortex A72: aarch64 for the Masses
ARM’s Cortex A72 is a 3-wide, speculative, out of order microarchitecture launched in 2016. During its prime, it saw service in several cell phone SoCs: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 650, used in the Oppo R11...
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China’s New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23
Computing power has emerged as a crucial national resource. Ever since the first general purpose computer, ENIAC, was used to calculate artillery and bomb ballistics, compute applications have...
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Inside Kepler, Nvidia’s Strong Start on 28 nm
Nvidia’s Fermi architecture was ambitious and innovative, offering advances in GPU compute along with features like high tessellation performance. However Terascale 2’s more traditional approach...
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