anon (spam.delete.delete@this.this.spam.com) on January 22, 2017 2:24 am wrote:
> none (none.delete@this.none.com) on January 21, 2017 6:44 pm wrote:
> > Robert David Graham (robert_david_graham.delete@this.yahoo.com) on January 21, 2017 5:34 pm wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I think the issue is less dumb nationalism than the dumb belief that ARM
> > > will deliver better performance/watt for supercomputer applications.
> >
> > How does Fujitsu fit in your vision?
>
> I think back when that decision was made ARM servers were still believed to grow rather quickly.
> So for Fujitsu going from SPARC to ARM might've been motivated by the expectation
> that by 2020 the ARM software ecosystem would be far superior for their purposes.
>
> It doesn't hurt that ARM is willing to add SVE to the ISA whereas Oracle, Fujitsu and everyone
> else who uses SPARC are used to everyone doing something slightly different than the next guy.

Wasn't SVE co-developed by ARM and Fujitsu?

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/armv8-a-scalable-vector-extension-for-post-k.pdf