Sparc64 X: Fujitsu's New-Generation 16-Core Processor for Unix Servers

@article{Yoshida2013Sparc64XF,
  title={Sparc64 X: Fujitsu's New-Generation 16-Core Processor for Unix Servers},
  author={Toshio Yoshida and Takumi Maruyama and Yasunobu Akizuki and Ryuji Kan and Naohiro Kiyota and Kiyoshi Ikenishi and Shigeki Itou and Tomoyuki Watahiki and Hiroshi Okano},
  journal={IEEE Micro},
  year={2013},
  volume={33},
  pages={16-24},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8056145}
}
The authors enhanced the microarchitecture and introduced an extended instruction set called High-Performance Computing Arithmetic Computational Extensions (HPC-ACE), used previously in the K computer, to realize extremely high-throughput performance of Sparc64 X.
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