The Elbrus-8S (russian: Эльбрус-8С) is a Russian 28 nanometer 8-core

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developed by

Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies MCST (russian: МЦСТ, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MCS ...

(MCST). The first prototypes were produced by the end of 2014 and serial production started in 2016. The Elbrus-8S is to be used in servers and workstations. The processor's architecture allows support of up to 32 processors on a single server motherboard. In 2018 MCST announced plans to produce the Elbrus-8SV, an upgraded version of the 8C with doubled performance. The CPU can process 576

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and has a frequency of 1.5 GHz, as well as

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support instead of

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. Engineering samples were already completed in Q3 2017. Development was completed in 2019В Минпроторге заявили о создании российского процессора "Эльбрус-8СВ"
/ref> and its fabrication started in 2020.

Supported operating systems

The Elbrus-8S and -SV processors support binary compatibility with Intel

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and

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processors via runtime

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. The documentation suggests that the processors can run

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and

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. The processors can also run a

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based OS

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for Elbrus.

Elbrus Elbrus-8S information

Elbrus Elbrus-8SV information

References

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