The HPC industry has been waiting a long time for the ARM ecosystem to mature enough to yield real-world clusters, with hundreds or thousands of nodes and running a full software stack, as a credible alternative to clusters based on X86 processors. …
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which has done a significant amount of research and development on alternative architectures for supercomputers over the years, has just fired up a prototype system based on the kinds of ARM chips that are typically found in smartphones and other client devices. …
This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, Spain. …
Many of us are impatient for Arm processors to take off in the datacenter in general and in HPC in particular. …
Every year at the Supercomputing Conference (SC) an unofficial theme emerges. …
Just this time last year, the projection was that by 2020, ARM processors would be chewing on twenty percent of HPC workloads. …
The HPC community is trying to solve the critical compute challenges of next generation high performance computing and ARM considers itself well-positioned to act as a catalyst in this regard. …
When ARM officials and partners several years ago began talking about pushing the low-power chip architecture from our phones and tablets and into the datacenter, the initial target was the emerging field of microservers – small, highly dense and highly efficient systems aimed at the growing number of cloud providers and hyperscale environments where power efficiency was as important as performance. …
When it comes to supercomputing, you don’t only have to strike while the iron is hot, you have to spend while the money is available. …
One look at the architectural ambitions for next-generation supercomputers in the United States versus those in Europe reveals an expected, but no less striking, emphasis on ARM systems for high performance computing applications. …
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