By: wumpus (lost.delete@this.in-a.cave.net), January 22, 2017 12:31 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
juanrga (noemail.delete@this.juanrga.com) on January 22, 2017 2:59 am wrote:
> Dumb belief? ROFL
I'd be really curious how in the world you would expect to get all the memory and switches to run at low enough power to justify the hit in performance. What stupendously powerful ARM floating point monster is out there to build a supercomputer? It is the same reason ARM can't supply power/wattage in the server room (except now with floating point issues), even if the CPU itself might use less power, there are other bits in the system that consume power at intel levels while limited to ARM performance.
It is hardly surprising that while nVidia is busy designing ARMs, they never bother designing their supercomputer parts to interface with anything other than Intel and IBM CPUs.
> Dumb belief? ROFL
I'd be really curious how in the world you would expect to get all the memory and switches to run at low enough power to justify the hit in performance. What stupendously powerful ARM floating point monster is out there to build a supercomputer? It is the same reason ARM can't supply power/wattage in the server room (except now with floating point issues), even if the CPU itself might use less power, there are other bits in the system that consume power at intel levels while limited to ARM performance.
It is hardly surprising that while nVidia is busy designing ARMs, they never bother designing their supercomputer parts to interface with anything other than Intel and IBM CPUs.
