That is a very interesting point! I never thought of that. Also mobile drives ARM development - yes I know the CPUs in Isambard and Fugaku will not be seen in your mobile phone but the ecosystem is propped up by having a diverse market and also the power saving priorities of mobile will influence HPC ARM CPUs.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 02:04, Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > I think that’s a major important point. Even if the whole of the HPC > market were clamouring for it (which they’re not, judging by this > discussion) that’s still a very small proportion of the worldwide CPU > market. We have to remember that we in the HPC community are a niche > market. I recall at SC a couple of years ago someone from Intel pointing > out that mobile devices and IoT were what was driving IT technology; the > volume dwarfs everything else. Hence the drive to NVRAM - not to make > things faster for HPC (although that was the benefit being presented > through that talk), but the fundamental driver was to increase phone > battery life. > > Tim > > -- > Tim Cutts > Head of Scientific Computing > Wellcome Sanger Institute > > > On 19 Jun 2021, at 16:49, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I suspect that is marketing speak, which roughly translates to not > that no one has asked for it, but rather requests haven't reached a > threshold where the requests are viewed as significant enough. > > > -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a > charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered > in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, > London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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