Arm HPC performance results: Bristol/GW4 Isambard (Applications porting and performance)
Channel: Charbax
Date: 2018-02-01

First public disclosure of Isambard performance results by Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK

Isambard is a new Tier 2 HPC service from GW4 built using:
Cray “Scout” system – XC50 series
• Aries interconnect
• 10,000+ Armv8 cores
• Cavium ThunderX2 processors
• 2x 32core @ above 2GHz per node

You can also watch my interview with Simon McIntosh-Smith about Isambard at the Cray booth at SC17 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAf6rOxLJL8

Filmed at the Arm HPC User Group at SC17 in Denver.

slideshow: https://developer.arm.com/-/media/developer/developers/hpc/files/Arm-HPC-UG-SC17/GoingArm_SC17_Bristol_Isambard.pdf?revision=d976e44f-5aec-4c3d-9bb5-fd5649260c0a&la=en