Characterizing the Performance-Energy Tradeoff of Small ARM Cores in HPC Computation

Deploying large numbers of small, low-power cores has been gaining traction recently as a system design strategy in high performance computing (HPC). The ARM platform that dominates the embedded and mobile computing segments is now being considered as an alternative to high-end x86 processors that largely dominate HPC because peak performance per watt may be substantially improved using off-the-shelf commodity processors.

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