At
the 2014 Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, global
supercomputer leader Cray Inc. CRAY today announced the
Company is evaluating alternative processor design points, including
the potential use of 64-bit ARM(R) and other power and performance
efficient processing technologies for its supercomputers and data
analytics systems.
As part of this effort, Cray was recently awarded a research and
development contract from the United States Department of Energy's
Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration
under a program called FastForward 2. This contract taps Cray to
explore a range of topics around architectures of 64-bit ARM
processors for high performance computing.
Additionally, Cray is working with Cavium, Inc. CAVM to
deliver Cray clusters based on Cavium's 48-core work load optimized
ThunderX(TM) ARM processors. The goal of this collaboration is to
analyze ARM solutions for selected workloads to investigate the ARM
value proposition in supercomputing.
"Our Adaptive Supercomputing vision centers on system designs that
integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified
architecture," said Steve Scott, Cray senior vice president and chief
technology officer. "We see alternatives such as 64-bit ARM, custom
ASICs and low-power Intel processors as enabling technologies for
certain HPC and analytics workloads, and a natural fit for our
strategy. Along with our current partnership with Intel, our
participation in the DOE FastForward 2 project and our work with
other technology providers, such as Cavium and ARM, gives us the
opportunity to take a closer look."
"The algorithmic processing performed in HPC environments impacts the
lives of billions of people and the planning for Exascale computing
presents some significant power challenges to this industry," said
Mike Muller, chief technology officer, ARM. "The collaboration
between ARM and its ecosystem partners has created a proven track
record of energy-efficiency leadership and we firmly believe this can
be applied to the supercomputing market. ARM welcomes Cray's
pioneering research to explore how 64-bit ARM technology can improve
performance density for future supercomputing platforms."
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