IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16

[phoronix]

Phoronix: IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16

GCC compiler patches began appearing this morning for IBM Z "Arch14" as a future architecture extension for their Z mainframe processors. IBM Z Arch14 will likely correlate to IBM z16...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Z-Arch14-GCC

[FireBurn]

Yay faster zSeries so banks can run 31bit cobol programs slightly faster :P

[CommunityMember]

NNPA sounds like something such as a Neural Network Processor(?) Architecture, for which FP16 is an expected capability. It may be interesting to see if a zSeries PU can be configured for dedicated Neural Network processing, or whether all PUs will have that capability, or ?

[marty1885]

NNPA sounds like something such as a Neural Network Processor(?) Architecture, for which FP16 is an expected capability. It may be interesting to see if a zSeries PU can be configured for dedicated Neural Network processing, or whether all PUs will have that capability, or ?

I guess they are adding Neural Network ability to IIPs? AFAIK they are vastly underutilized right now.