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High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots of capability to deploy it. Deploying a single rack of servers to total a couple of thousand cores isn’t going to cut it. The former #1 supercomputer, Summit, is built from 22-core IBM Power9 CPUs paired with NVIDIA GV100 accelerators, totaling 2.4 million cores and consuming 10 MegaWatts of power. The new Fugaku supercomputer, built at Riken in partnership with Fujitsu, takes the top spot on the June 2020 #1 list, with 7.3 million cores and consuming 28 MegaWatts of power.
Ampere Computing: Arm is Now an Investor
The pipeline for Arm based server products has a few companies fighting for as much of the market as they can get – the server market is a big...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/15/2019
Ampere eMAG in the Cloud: 32 Arm Core Instance for $1/hr
One of the companies working to put Arm processors into the cloud is Ampere, and the proliferation of Arm in the cloud is continuing to grow. Cloud company Packet...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/29/2019
Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018
Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by Johan De Gelas on 5/23/2018
GIGABYTE's ThunderXStation with Dual Cavium ThunderX2 Arm SoCs
GIGABYTE this month introduced its ThunderXStation workstation based on two Cavium ThunderX2 processors featuring Armv8 architecture. The machine is primarily aimed at software developers porting or developing various applications...
23 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2018
Qualcomm Launches 48-core Centriq for $1995: Arm Servers for Cloud Native Applications
Following on from the SoC disclosure at Hot Chips, Qualcomm has this week announced the formal launch of its new Centriq 2400 family of Arm-based SoCs for cloud applications...
37 by Ian Cutress on 11/10/2017
MACOM Sells AppliedMicro’s X-Gene CPU Business
MACOM last week announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the microprocessor-related assets it bought from AppliedMicro to Project Denver Holdings, a new company backed by...
13 by Anton Shilov on 10/31/2017
Analyzing Falkor’s Microarchitecture: A Deep Dive into Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 for Windows Server and Linux
Developing a custom microarchitecture is difficult. Even with all the standards in place and licensing an instruction set such as ARM, the actual development takes time and the right...
41 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2017
ARM Launches DynamIQ: big.Little to Eight Cores Per Cluster
Most users delving into SoCs know about ARM core designs over the years. Initially we had single CPUs, then paired CPUs and then quad-core processors, using early ARM cores...
35 by Ian Cutress on 3/21/2017
AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 SoC Begins Sampling: A Step in ARM's 2017 Server Ambitions
There has been a lot of recent movement in the ARM Server SoC space, with three major players. The third player, AppliedMicro, has been acquired by MACOM. MACOM has...
24 by Johan De Gelas on 3/15/2017
Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling
Qualcomm this month demonstrated its 48-core Centriq 2400 SoC in action and announced that it had started to sample its first server processor with select customers. The live showcase...
88 by Anton Shilov on 12/16/2016
ARM Announces ARM v8-A with Scalable Vector Extensions: Aiming for HPC and Data Center
Today ARM is announcing an update to their line of architecture license products. With the goal of moving ARM more into the server, the data center, and high-performance computing...
15 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2016
The ARM Cortex A73 - Artemis Unveiled
It’s only been a little over a year since we had a good look into ARM’s Cortex A72 presented at ARM’s TechDay event in London. Over the span of...
63 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/29/2016
ARM on AMD: The A1100 Seattle Silicon at SuperComputing 15
Anyone loosely following AMD’s efforts with ARM intellectual property would have had on their periphery the noise of the A1100 product aimed at servers, codenamed Seattle. The idea was...
18 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
ARM Announces New Cortex-A35 CPU - Ultra-High Efficiency For Wearables & More
Today as part of the volley of announcements at ARM's TechCon conference we discover ARM's new low-power application-tier CPU architecture, the Cortex-A35. ARM follows an interesting product model: The...
25 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/10/2015
AMD’s K12 ARM CPU Now In 2017
Along with an update on their x86 plans, AMD has also presented an update on their ARM plans at financial analyst day today. The news there is a mixed...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
ARM Challenging Intel in the Server Market: An Overview
Calxeda is no more, but many ARM licensees are preparing to storm the server market. Do they have a have fighting chance? Is the server ARMada capable of competing...
78 by Johan De Gelas on 12/16/2014
ARMv8 Goes Embedded with Applied Micro's HeliX SoCs
We covered the news of the first shipment of 64-bit ARMv8 processors in the HP Moonshot product line earlier this week. At ARM TechCon 2014, Applied Micro (APM) had...
12 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2014
HP, AppliedMicro and TI Bring New ARM Servers to Retail
Yesterday HP announced retail availability of two ARM based servers, the ProLiant m400 and m800. Each are offered in a server cartridge as part of the Moonshot System. A...
34 by Stephen Barrett on 9/30/2014
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