Initial explorations of ARM processors for scientific computing

15th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research

物理学;计算机科学

Abdurachmanov, David^1 ; Elmer, Peter^2 ; Eulisse, Giulio^3 ; Muzaffar, Shahzad^3

Digital Science and Computing Center, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania^1

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States^2

Fermilab, Batavia, IL 60510, United States^3

关键词: Current generation;    High energy physics software;    High-throughput computing;    Initial exploration;    Power efficiency;    Scientific computing applications;    Software development environment;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/523/1/012009/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/523/1/012009

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Power efficiency is becoming an ever more important metric for both high performance and high throughput computing. Over the course of next decade it is expected that flops/watt will be a major driver for the evolution of computer architecture. Servers with large numbers of ARM processors, already ubiquitous in mobile computing, are a promising alternative to traditional x86-64 computing. We present the results of our initial investigations into the use of ARM processors for scientific computing applications. In particular we report the results from our work with a current generation ARMv7 development board to explore ARM-specific issues regarding the software development environment, operating system, performance benchmarks and issues for porting High Energy Physics software.