More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …
Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …
It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. …
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
Not all important supercomputers are on the twice-a-year Top500 rankings of machines. …
The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
At the moment, the most powerful Arm processor on the planet is the 48-core A64FX processor from Fujitsu, which was created as the heavily vectored compute engine for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan. …
Updated: There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
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