HPC
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
ThunderX2
Compute
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
HPC
ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon
It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key supercomputing sites are looking past Intel to Arm-based supercomputers in hopes of reaching efficiency and memory bandwidth targets needed for nuclear stockpile simulations. …
Compute
Sandia Lends Arm A Hand In HPC With Astra Supercomputer
If the ecosystem for Arm processors is going to grow in the HPC arena, as many think it can, then someone has to make the initial investments in prototype hardware and help cultivate the software stack that will run on current and future Arm platforms. …
Cloud
Getting Logical About Cavium ThunderX2 Versus Intel Skylake
Any processor that hopes to displace the Xeon as the engine of choice for general purpose compute has to do one of two things, and we would argue both: It has to be a relatively seamless replacement for a Xeon processor inside of existing systems, much as the Opteron was back in the early 2000s, and it has to offer compelling advantages that yield better performance per dollar per watt per unit of space in a rack. …
Cloud
ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale And HPC Compute
In the long run, networking chip giant and one-time server chip wannabe Broadcom might regret selling off its “Vulcan” 64-bit Arm chip business to Cavium, soon to be part of Marvell. …
Compute
Another Step In Building The HPC Ecosystem For Arm
Many of us are impatient for Arm processors to take off in the datacenter in general and in HPC in particular. …
Compute
Cavium Is Truly A Contender With One-Two Arm Server Punch
It has been two years since chip maker Cavium rolled out its ThunderX Arm server processor roadmap and gave us the first glimpse of its second-generation ThunderX2 processors. …
Compute
ARM Benchmarks Show HPC Ripe for Processor Shakeup
Every year at the Supercomputing Conference (SC) an unofficial theme emerges. …
Compute
Cray ARMs Highest End Supercomputer with ThunderX2
Just this time last year, the projection was that by 2020, ARM processors would be chewing on twenty percent of HPC workloads. …