Loongson 3B

paulunderwood · 2012-11-22, 16:37

Is this a good processor for mprime/llr/pfgw -- supposing woltman code was written for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_3B

taking into account running costs?

Or has it the same performance as ARM chips?

jasonp · 2012-11-23, 13:07

The Loongson has a very nice microarchitecture and is actually being used for the nodes of low-cost HPC rigs. It's biggest problem right now is that nobody seems to have figured out a way to sell them outside China.

It's also a rarity: a high-performance out-of-order design that is not x86, intended for a mass market. It has big money behind it, apparently for nationalistic reasons.

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paulunderwood Sep 2002 Database er0rr 2²×941 Posts	Loongson 3B Is this a good processor for mprime/llr/pfgw -- supposing woltman code was written for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_3B taking into account running costs? Or has it the same performance as ARM chips? Last fiddled with by paulunderwood on 2012-11-22 at 16:37

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jasonp Tribal Bullet Oct 2004 3×1,181 Posts	The Loongson has a very nice microarchitecture and is actually being used for the nodes of low-cost HPC rigs. It's biggest problem right now is that nobody seems to have figured out a way to sell them outside China. It's also a rarity: a high-performance out-of-order design that is not x86, intended for a mass market. It has big money behind it, apparently for nationalistic reasons.