Performance and energy-efficiency analysis of ARM processors for HPC workloads
Laura Carrington · 2015
The 64-bit ARMv8 platform has captured the attention of system designers across a number of computing domains, ranging from mobile and tablet computing to large-scale cloud and HPC systems. This is evidenced by the fact that ARM has sold over 50 licenses to the technology. Many in the HPC community are convinced that energy efficient ARM designs, and the ARMv8 platform in particular due to its improved double-precision and SIMD support over prior ARM designs, will figure prominently into the set of solutions that allow continued expansion in the computational capabilities of HPC systems and the scientific discoveries fueled by those capabilities. Dr. Carrington will present her work on the performance and energy-efficiency analysis of ARM processors for HPC workloads. The analysis includes comparison of an early ARMv8 HPC platform to current architectures including INTEL SandyBridge, Haswell, and ATOM.