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ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change'
An anonymous reader writes "Commodity ARM CPUs are poised to to replace x86 CPUs in modern supercomputers just as commodity x86 CPUs replaced vector CPUs in early supercomputers. An analysis by the EU Mountblanc Project (PDF) (using Nvidia Tegra 2/3, Samsung Exynos 5 & Intel Core i7 CPUs) highlights the suitability and energy efficiency of ARM-based solutions. They finish off by saying, 'Current limitations [are] due to target market condition — not real technological challenges. ... A whole set of ARM server chips is coming — solving most of the limitations identified.'"
take your disregard for the planet and shove it up your asshole
You're an idiot and know nothing about this topic.
A single ARM 4 core A-15 running 1.5 GHz per core blows away any competing chip at the same specs, on power AND price. It's not limited to the calculations x86 are and can process graphics and physics better as a result.
Though it's not all your fault that you're ignorant in this area, no one in software short of workstation application providers are properly utilizing multi-threading and especially in the gaming world, none of them even know how to do it. Luckily, the ARM architecture natively solves these problems without having to write mutex or atomic code to work around threading issues.
ARM is the future and any who don't license it and move away from x86 will be left in the dust. The A-15 architecture even has the ability to run x86 and some other architectures natively without recompile.
Then again, I've discussed all of this before on /. over a year ago and people still don't believe it until they see it on /. or some other crap website rather than going straight to the source and reading their own docs. Ignorance is bliss.