Servers and Cloud Computing blog

I/O contention is a frustrating problem to solve. An application run may be taking longer than expected, but how do you know if it’s due to I/O contention?

The University of Cambridge examines the readiness and potential of Arm-based platforms for High Performance Computing.

With deployments of Arm-based servers for HPC now on the near horizon, ISC17 in Frankfurt was a prime opportunity for partners and end-users to begin talking more openly about their plans and intentions…

Alongside the open source compilers for porting scientific applications to Armv8-A, for the first time sits a new commercial solution from Arm, promising regular and targeted updates made specifically…

Join us at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany as ARM hosts its “Going ARM” Workshop on Thursday, June 22 from 09:00-13:00. This workshop is all about sharing experiences and knowledge. Attendees will gain…

It’s with great excitement that we’re announcing that Allinea is now a part of Arm.

It looks like DeepMind-level performance is within our grasp! I took a quick look to see how our 90-core cloud run looks under a profiler

This spring my attention was caught by another interesting result: using a new approach they were able to beat Atari Pong in just 2 hours of training time on a single node by parallelizing the work into…

I had the opportunity to present the latest update to our Armv8-A architecture, known as the Scalable Vector Extension or SVE. In this post I run through the latest update.

Not everybody has access to an Infiniband-backed supercomputer, but anyone can launch a fleet of EC2 GPU instances for a few dollars per hour. Can we get similar speedups in the cloud? I decided to find…

In February, a new paper from Google's DeepMind team appeared on arxiv. This one was interesting – they showed dramatically improved performance and training time of their Atari-playing Deep Q-Learning…

Arm MAP isn't just a lightweight profiler to help you optimize your code. It also lets you add your own metrics with just a couple of lines of code.

We look at debugging tips for Fortran and F90 developers to show why and how to use a debugger for some typical bugs.

The memory debugger in Arm DDT assists in fixing a number of common memory usage errors with C, C++ and Fortran codes on Linux.

Dangling pointers are pointers whose memory has been freed but which have not been set to null (or 0x0). This allows a particularly tricky class of bug to arise...

I expected a very straightforward tuning process – after all, this code has been a staple of the HPC community for decades – but as it turns out I was in for a surprise!

In Part 1 I ran Discovar, a life sciences genome assembly code, on one of our internal systems and optimized it to run the benchmark code 7% faster. Of course, physical hardware often performs very differently…

Python is pretty commonplace in scientific computing these days. It is easy to code and powerful - but numerical computation is not a strength that Python has.

We're going to see what Arm MAP 5.0 can do by profiling three versions of a simple PI calculator program with some added I/O for good fun

Arm Forge is a development tool suite for developing, debugging and optimizing CUDA and OpenACC codes - from GeForce to Tesla and the Kepler K80.

OpenFOAM, developed by ESI-OpenCFD is one of the most popular tools for developing CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) applications, along with ANSYS Fluent or CD-Adapco Star-CCM+.