Linux Preps for Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory (phoronix.com) 25
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New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC...
[I]t would appear there is a new Kunpeng SoC coming that will feature integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).Unless I missed something, this Kunpeng SoC with HBM memory hasn't been formally announced yet and I haven't been able to find any other references short of pointing to prior kernel patches working on this HBM integration... It will be interesting to see what comes of Huawei Kunpeng SoCs with HBM memory and ultimately how well they perform against other AArch64 server processors as well as the Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC competition.
[I]t would appear there is a new Kunpeng SoC coming that will feature integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).Unless I missed something, this Kunpeng SoC with HBM memory hasn't been formally announced yet and I haven't been able to find any other references short of pointing to prior kernel patches working on this HBM integration... It will be interesting to see what comes of Huawei Kunpeng SoCs with HBM memory and ultimately how well they perform against other AArch64 server processors as well as the Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC competition.
Kinda like the Intel Management Engine? (Score:1)
Re: its from Huawei... (Score:1)
Check yourself for bigoted views.
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Actually, he is right. On Intel we know there are backdoors and on AMD very likely too. Hence no need to check. But on Huawei we actually have to check, because there may not be any and with the close attention anything Chinese gets, there likely will not be any.
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Huawei Kunpeng SoCs with HBM memory! (Score:2)
Re:Huawei Kunpeng SoCs with HBM memory! (Score:4, Insightful)
Exactly. The first question is "What is it and why does it need a driver?". The summary says it as if that's something obvious and provides no info. TFA though helpfully quotes some of the commit messages that point out it's a transparent cache layer that the OS _doesn't_ need to worry about, and this driver is just an on/off power switch for the feature in case you don't want to pay the power penalty.
Add a driver for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) cache, which provides user space interfaces to power on/off the HBM cache. Use HBM as a cache can take advantage of the high bandwidth of HBM in normal memory access, and OS does not need to aware of the existence of HBM cache. For workloads which does not require a high memory access bandwidth, power off the HBM cache device can help save energy.
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HBM does not _need_ a driver. But if the OS is told that some memory is significantly faster, it benefits from a driver.
In the USA? (Score:1)
Why do I find myself doubting you'll ever see this in the bigoted USA?
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Red State America is bigoted? Who knew?
Re: In the USA? (Score:1)
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Troll is trolly.
I don't give a fuck if it is Chinese, nor am I a Yank. But why would you saddle your technology to a British imperialist architecture like arm64?
Risc-V is on the right side of history, you guys just don't know it yet.
While I agree with you 100% about RISC-V, the skinny is:
HiSilicon (the semiconductor design division of Huawei) has more than 5 lustres of experience with ARM.
Sanctions not whitstanding, Huawei probably has appropiate ARM licenses, and probably got them cheap.
Huawei has new cusmomers NOW waiting for new servers.
Huawei has old customers now wanting to migrate to more powerfull servers.
Huawei can not use neither Power or Sparc, nor Intel or AMD, and Zhaoxin and THATHIC are long in the tooth now for server usa
Re: In the USA? (Score:2)
Until some big corporation EEEs it.
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You can jump on aliexpress.us right now and buy a Loongson. Why do you think you wouldn't be able to buy one of these? You will pay an inflated price soon, of course...
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You can jump on aliexpress.us right now and buy a Loongson. Why do you think you wouldn't be able to buy one of these? You will pay an inflated price soon, of course...
If you are willing to pay top U$D for the big hoonking server where these chips are attached, then certainly, you can buy one.
There are Loonsooons for desktop and server, but for the time being, Kumpengs are server only.
Re: In the USA? (Score:2)
What is "this"? Kunpeng ARM SoC with HBM or Linux?
speed? whereâ(TM)s the bandwidth (Score:2)
Bandwidth is distinction that makes difference not infinitesimal speed ups other than its nice having mem adjacency for roundtrips.
How nice it would be to have more channels rather than trafficking faster