Evaluating the Arm Ecosystem for High Performance Computing

Autor:	Jackson, Adrian, Turner, Andrew, Weiland, Michele, Johnson, Nick, Perks, Olly, Parsons, Mark
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Computer Science - Distributed Parallel and Cluster Computing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In recent years, Arm-based processors have arrived on the HPC scene, offering an alternative the existing status quo, which was largely dominated by x86 processors. In this paper, we evaluate the Arm ecosystem, both the hardware offering and the software stack that is available to users, by benchmarking a production HPC platform that uses Marvell's ThunderX2 processors. We investigate the performance of complex scientific applications across multiple nodes, and we also assess the maturity of the software stack and the ease of use from a users' perspective. This papers finds that the performance across our benchmarking applications is generally as good as, or better, than that of well-established platforms, and we can conclude from our experience that there are no major hurdles that might hinder wider adoption of this ecosystem within the HPC community. Comment: 18 pages, accepted at PASC19, 1 figure
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04250 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv