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Cray to Deliver ARM-Powered Supercomputer How could the puniest processor other than Raspberry Pi Zero be used in a supercomputer? Cray thinks it’s happening. Cray started exploring the use of an ARM processor with Cavium in late 2014. And in June 2016, Fujitsu said it would build its Post-K supercomputer with ARM v8 chips. Then, at the at the Barcelona-based ...

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Cray to Deliver ARM-Powered Supercomputer How could the puniest processor other than Raspberry Pi Zero be used in a supercomputer? Cray thinks it’s happening. Cray started exploring the use of an ARM processor with Cavium in late 2014. And in June 2016, Fujitsu said it would build its Post-K supercomputer with ARM v8 chips. Then, at the at the Barcelona-based Mont-Blanc conference on January 17, the GW4 Alliance announced Cray and the UK Met Office had been awarded £3m by EPSRC to deliver a new Tier 2 HPC service for UK-based scientists. The new service, named Isambard (after Isambard Kingdom
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