Faster sequence alignment with Arm Performance Reports
Recently we've been running bowtie2 on a 16 CPU server with 32 GB RAM. I've tried using the “-p” flag to use more cores but it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference after 8 or so.…
Recently we've been running bowtie2 on a 16 CPU server with 32 GB RAM. I've tried using the “-p” flag to use more cores but it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference after 8 or so.…
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+.
Most modules of OpenFOAM are heavily optimized and offer little room for…
Arm DDT and Arm MAP are excellent tools for finding program flaws and performance issues – they are also very helpful for studying codes and coding techniques. In this article I present a handful of optimization techniques and use Arm MAP to illustrate…
In recent months, the HPC market has been waiting to see how Arm will drive innovation for High Performance Computing. Arm and its partners have been working hard to enable a greater variety of competitive hardware solutions, providing the innovation…
A modern SoC requires efficient power control infrastructure to provide maximum performance with minimum required power. Arm is the leader in low power innovation and architecture, from Arm big.LITTLE to the latest Arm DynamIQ clusters…
If you’ve ever been in Denver, you might have noticed incredibly different one’s perspective can be, depending on which direction one chooses. Looking eastward, you might assume the Denver…
Arm platforms are beginning to enter the mainstream server and data center market. Over the next few years, we will see a wealth of innovative, high performance offerings within the server arena, from across the Arm Partnership. This coming wave has the…
This article is part of a larger investigation into how IoT is affecting businesses in real ways.
Find out more in the 2017 IoT Business Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit
Companies that manage properties after construction are currently the driving…
It’s not easy to stay competitive in today’s fast-moving service provider market. Telcos and managed service providers need every edge they can get. They’re looking for versatile, multi-technology uCPE white box options that make it easy for them to employ…
When the SDN World Congress convenes in The Hague this October 9th - 13th, it marks 5 years since the release of the original network function virtualization (NFV) White Paper. Following closely on that came the creation of the ETSI NFV ISG, which began…
Arm today announced its free system guidance to help you save time and reduce complexity, with key system configurations analysed for mobile and infrastructure PPA targets.
For decades Arm has been supplying semiconductor…
Arm is much more than just an IP supplier – for many years our in-house teams have been working together to create, validate and optimise compute subsystems. At the beginning of the year, Arm launched free system guidance, with the goal to help our partners…
In 2013 Arm announced the AMBA 5 CHI protocol to provide the performance and scale required for infrastructure applications such as networking and data center. The protocol has been highly successful and has been the foundation for Arm many core systems…
Its seems like it was only yesterday when we announced the Arm Cortex-A73, the most power-efficient high-performance Cortex application processor to date. Today we can see Cortex-A73 in production, powering cutting-edge devices in the mobile and consumer…
The amount of data that consumers are producing is increasing at a phenomenal rate, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Cisco estimated last year that global mobile data traffic would multiply tenfold between 2014 and 2019, up to a rate…
You may have assumed that Mobile World Congress is an event that is entirely dedicated to the smartphones and devices that have changed our lives over the past couple of decades. However, in amongst the new and shiny gadgets there is also a lot of exhibition…
Software-defined networking (SDN) was one of the hot new technologies in 2013, as industry experts wanted to talk about its potential to revolutionize data processing. Not only that, but companies were keen to get in on the action that was forecasted…
This is the first in a series of blogs covering the migration towards ARM technology in the rapidly evolving telecom-infrastructure market.
A lot has been written recently regarding the challenges facing the industry to meet the demand for content and…
Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in embedded processing solutions, has released two Layerscape architecture (LS) SoCs based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture that Freescale describes as “delivering unprecedented performance and integration…