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The fact that Apple is moving away from Intel to ARM has been making a lot of headlines recently — but that’s not the only new place where ARM CPUs have been making a splash.
ARM has also been turning heads in High Performance Computing (HPC), and an ARM-based system is now the world’s most powerful supercomputer (Fugaku). AWS recently made their 2nd generation ARM Graviton chips available which allows everyone to test HPC workloads on ARM silicon. A company called The Numerical Algorithms Group recently published a small benchmark study that compared weather simulations on Intel, AMD and ARM instances on AWS and reported that although the ARM silicon is slowest, it is also the cheapest for this benchmark.
The benchmark test concludes the ARM processor provides “a very cost-efficient solution…and performance is competitive to other, more traditional HPC processors.”
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