Elbrus 2000
The Elbrus 2000 ( Эльбрус 2000, E2K ) is a Russian microprocessor which is based on a VLIW EPIC architecture. It was developed by МЦСТ ( Mzst, Moscow Center for SPARC Technology).
Mount Elbrus in 2000 was planned as a microprocessor continuation of the Elbrus -3- processor architecture. He uses a technology of the binary compilation to achieve continuing to support the Intel x86 architecture. The design has been implemented in the Taiwanese contract manufacturer TSMC on standard cells and manufactured from June 2008.
As of September 2009, production at the new plant of Angstrem is planned in Zelenograd. The equipment used in Fab 30, AMD acquired is suitable for a 130 - nanometer process with 200 - millimeter wafers.
Specifications
The Elbrus 2000 builds on the Elbrus architecture (Explicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling - similar EPIC), whose peculiarity is the parallelization of the resources for a time- parallel execution of explicit instructions parts in a VLIW instruction. The Elbrus 2000, as successor architecture of Elbrus 3, as a microprocessor rated, the - implements the " deepest known today " parallelization - together with corresponding compilers.
Its peak power is 23.7 GIPS.
- 64 Bit: 6.67 GIPS / 2.4 GFLOPS
- 32-bit: 9.5 GIPS / 4.8 GFLOPS
- 8/16 bit: 22.6 GIPS / 12.2 GFLOPS
- Integers: 32, 64
- Real numbers: 32, 64, 80
- Cache 1 for instructions: 64 KB
- Cache 1 for data: 64 KB
- 2 cache: 256 KB
- Channels for Cache: 9.6 GB / s
- Channels to the main memory: 4.8 GB / s
History
Mzst was after 1990 as an offshoot of the leading Soviet computer science institute SA Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computing Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( IPMuRT; ИТМ и ВТ ) and the Elbrus group out. The IPMuRT had about 30 years developed supercomputer, including about 15 years, the number Elbrus 1, 2 and Elbrus Mount Elbrus 3 Already Elbrus 1 was characterized by a superscalar parallel architecture whereby the technical backwardness of components in the Soviet Union could be partially compensated. The built on outdated components to about 1990 computer Elbrus 3 could, for example, thanks to its architecture bring a two fold increase in computing power of the then modern American supercomputer Cray Y -MP. Chief designer of the Elbrus 3 was Boris Babayan.
On 25 February 1999 Babayan announced on the international Microprocessor Forum that his team have the Elbrus developed in 2000, the upcoming Merced ( Itanium ) significantly surpassed in all respects.
The project was announced after Keith Diefendorffs article The Russians Are Coming the Microprocessor Report 2/1999 in the West. Dave Ditzel, Transmeta founder of the company, also spoke positively about the project.
Was informed in 2005 that the Elbrus -3M - chip Эльбрус - 3м Кристалл was implemented for the computer Elbrus 3M and is being tested.
E3M the chip is a disarmed model has no level-3 cache. His logic was developed by Mzst and other partners on the basis of a library of standard cells of the Taiwanese contract manufacturer TSMC. His work clock is 300 MHz.
2007 was informed on the basis of test patterns of the microprocessor of the same name on the conclusion of the state tests of the computer complex Elbrus 3M. In July 2008, the computer was first presented to the press. Prior to the public of the 300 - MHz computer surpassed in Intel/IA-32-Kompatibilitätsmodus the 500 MHz Intel Pentium III at SPEC tests. It was thus demonstrated that the binary compatibility works with the IA-32, ie the binary compiler, the mini- operating system and architecture innovations that were designed to fit IA- 32 work. That the Elbrus 3M works with the widespread in Russia Elbrus code was clear after the state tests, where he had shown benefits, which were comparable to the 2- GHz version of the Intel Pentium 4. The speed difference can be explained by the fact that the pre-compile the binary code of programs optimized that were written for other architectures.
The developers have promised in 2008 to deliver several hundred Elbrus -3M computer complexes for tasks of air defense and missile defense. Also polynuclear variants and the transition from 130 nm faster technologies are planned.
Comments
The fate of the E2K was influenced by the fact that Intel took over the company whose team Babajans and in 2004. This included approximately 500 engineers and researchers.
Owner of the patents for the processor is the company Elbrus International Services in the Cayman Islands.