They make their own via the /Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies./
Check out the Elbrus architecture, its pretty clever. It can run native
SPARC binaries and also has a fairly efficient x86 compatibility layer
built into the hardware. The way they achieve bi-endian capability is
pretty neat, in addition to their aggressively large (20+) instructions
per cycle when running native Elbrus code compiled with their VLIW support.
On 01/04/18 14:02, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
The Intel flop hits the US .mil as well, because
they depend on COTS Xeons.
I pity the Russians. I wonder if they pay through the nose for
Oracle's power hungry hardware, or make it cheaper and power efficient
of their own.
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 18:28, Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghega...@gmail.com
<mailto:jgeoghega...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The Russians heavily use SPARC for aerospace/military applications as
well as their in house domestic-use-only Elbrus machines, for what I
imagine to be reasons precisely like this.
