Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender

Re:Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender by bryanlarsen on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:30PM (#15790942)

"Intel maintains the pure-performance lead everywhere else"

The point of the article is that ThunderX is claimed to be faster than Xeon Gold for HPC applications.

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Re:Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender by philipkglass on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:28PM (#15791607)

I see one HPC application where ThunderX 30% is faster (TeaLeaf). For the others shown, it's neck-and-neck with the Xeon. Reaching parity with Xeon is admittedly impressive even on this subset of applications, but it doesn't look consistently faster based on the information presented. I'm personally interested in how this system stacks up for quantum chemistry (GAMESS, NWChem, PySCF, Psi4...) and I hope that more benchmarks will become available soon.

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Re:Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender by monocasa on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:52PM (#15791223)

But no where near single threaded performance.

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