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(See image below) By Patrick Thibodeau November 15, 2012 06:00 AM ET Add a comment Like 0 Computerworld - SALT LAKE CITY - The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is using the ARM-based Samsung Exynos 5 Dual processor to build a supercomputer. It's the same processor that's available in Samsung's new $249 Chromebook. ARM licenses processor designs to chipmakers, and the chip produced by Samsung for the Chromebook is a good first iteration to what the Barcelona center ultimately wants to see in this chip. The initial goal is to build a Latest from supercomputer that's just large enough to squeak onto the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers by the end of next year. It will HP's Todd Bradley: Surface is no serve as a prototype. competition to us "What we want to prove is that one can build an HPC system out of TripIt collects all your travel itineraries on commodity components," said Alex Ramirez, the research manager for this one mobile device effort known as the Mont-Blanc project. Love it or hate it, Dropbox is here to stay in The advantage of using chips designed for mobile your business Supercomputer race use is their relatively low power. Based on future Follow CITEworld Europe looks to ARM chips for ARM processor development, the Mont-Blanc supercomputing edge project believes it may be possible to build a 200 petaflop system by around 2017 that uses only 10 SC2012: Top500 expects exascale FREE INSIDER GUIDE computing by 2020 MW of power. 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The widely held supercomputing power with 20- goal is to build an exascale system -- 1,000 times Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving petaflop Titan more powerful than a petaflop system - that uses Data Centers for Consolidation This paper gives examples of what is becoming a Climate change research gets no more than 20 MW of power. standard architecture for preparing the physical petascale supercomputer infrastructure in the receiving data center. This Dell supercomputer effort spawns Ramirez believes ARM processors have the approach... new line of servers potential of delivering exascale sized computers, if the problems to doing so can be solved. "No one Guide to Social IT Basics Big Bird, not big tech, gets When IT organizations utilize social media, it can traction in debate has tried this before," said Ramirez. Mobile efficiently help more people inside and outside the data More in Supercomputers processor sockets are designed to be operational center quickly access more services and... by themselves, and not to communicate with other Boost IT Visibility & Value with Service Catalog processors, he said. Many CIOs are being pressured to demonstrate IT value. Create a great service catalog that widely "So what's going to happen when we put 2,000 of these sockets in a rack?" promotes your services that are easy to... said Ramirez, who said he they're not sure how the chips will behave, or Next Gen IT and the Cloud http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233658/Europe_looks_to_ARM_chips_for... 15/11/2012 Página 2 de 4 whether the chips will overheat. "There are a number of unknowns that may Find out how next-gen IT solutions are flexible, intuitive, actually prevent us from building a high-density solution with them," he said. social and powerful - and how IT in the cloud will help your organization... The problems of building an exascale computer go well beyond the The Modern CIO: Leading the Way processor. Vendors and researchers at the supercomputing show here, Top IT leaders and CIOs from around the globe gathered to discuss technology advances and SC12, are struggling with new ways to speed everything that goes on in increased business demands. systems by improving bandwidth, minimize the movement of data to reduce latency, and improving the resiliency of systems as cores fail. All High Performance Computing White Papers The Exynos is a 32-bit chip that also includes a GPU. Ramirez is expecting High Performance Computing a 64-bit ARM chip in 2014. 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BMC recorded webinar featuring Forrester on workload automation survey results What do IT thought leaders really think about the state of job scheduling on the ground today? Leave it to Forrester Research to... All High Performance Computing Webcasts Intel this week released its new high-performance chip, its Xeon Phi co-processor, a 60-core chip that can deliver up to a teraflop of performance. To give you an idea of its size, it is shown here sitting on a Chomebook Samsung 5 550, 12.1-inch model which uses an Intel Celeron processor. The latest Samsung Chromebook model uses the Samsung Exynos ARM processor that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is deploying in its supercomputer. Patrick Thibodeau covers cloud computing and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed . His e-mail address is [email protected]. 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