Automatically tuned linear algebra software
SC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
An overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
High-density computing: a 240-processor Beowulf in one cubic meter
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
MegaProto: 1 TFlops/10kW Rack Is Feasible Even with Only Commodity Technology
SC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Early evaluation of IBM BlueGene/P
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study
Proceedings of the eleventh international joint conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Energy-efficient cluster computing with FAWN: workloads and implications
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
Wimpy node clusters: what about non-wimpy workloads?
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware
High-performance message-passing over generic Ethernet hardware with Open-MX
Parallel Computing
The low-power architecture approach towards exascale computing
Proceedings of the second workshop on Scalable algorithms for large-scale systems
System-level integrated server architectures for scale-out datacenters
Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
The IBM Blue Gene/Q Compute Chip
IEEE Micro
The Green Index: A Metric for Evaluating System-Wide Energy Efficiency in HPC Systems
IPDPSW '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum
Journal of Computational Physics
Experiences with mobile processors for energy efficient HPC
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Power struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC debate on contemporary ARM and x86 architectures
HPCA '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
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In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in high-performance computing. This transformation has been so effective that the June 2013 TOP500 list is still dominated by x86. In 2013, the largest commodity market in computing is not PCs or servers, but mobile computing, comprising smart-phones and tablets, most of which are built with ARM-based SoCs. This leads to the suggestion that once mobile SoCs deliver sufficient performance, mobile SoCs can help reduce the cost of HPC. This paper addresses this question in detail. We analyze the trend in mobile SoC performance, comparing it with the similar trend in the 1990s. We also present our experience evaluating performance and efficiency of mobile SoCs, deploying a cluster and evaluating the network and scalability of production applications. In summary, we give a first answer as to whether mobile SoCs are ready for HPC.