Floating-point performance of ARM cores and their efficiency in classical molecular dynamics

International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and Beyond 2015

物理学;计算机科学

Nikolskiy, V.^1,2 ; Stegailov, V.^1,2

National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya ulitsa, Moscow

101000, Russia^1

Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS), Izhorskaya st. 13 Bd. 2, Moscow

125412, Russia^2

关键词: Classical molecular dynamics;    CPU architecture;    Exascale;    Floating points;    Power efficiency;    Scientific applications;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/681/1/012049/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/681/1/012049

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Supercomputing of the exascale era is going to be inevitably limited by power efficiency. Nowadays different possible variants of CPU architectures are considered. Recently the development of ARM processors has come to the point when their floating point performance can be seriously considered for a range of scientific applications. In this work we present the analysis of the floating point performance of the latest ARM cores and their efficiency for the algorithms of classical molecular dynamics.