ARM In Supercomputers - "Get Ready For The Change"

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Submission + - ARM In Supercomputers - "Get Ready For The Change" (montblanc-project.eu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 25, 2013 @11:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: Commodity ARM CPUs are poised to to replace x86 CPUs just as commodity x86 CPUs replaced vector CPUs in early supercomputers. An analysis by the EU Mountblanc Project (using Nvidia Tegra 2/3, Samsung Exynos 5 & Intel Core i7 CPUs) highlights the suitability & energy efficiency of ARM based solutions. They finish off by saying that 'Current limitations due to target market condition — not real technological challenges' and 'A Whole set of ARM server chips is coming — solving most of the limitations identified'

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