Today appeared an interesting interview with the director of one research laboratories of Dell on the use of supercomputers, Tim Carroll . As acknowledged by the team leader, the company is developing a prototype of a supercomputer based on ARM processor architecture .
At the end of last year the European Union adopted the national program to develop a supercomputer on ARM platform. As a prototype of the platform selected Samsung Exynos processor 5 (draft Mont-Blanc). Initially, the role of the prototype were assigned to NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, but then the project was changed in favor of Samsung platform . Obviously, Dell company could not leave this movement without attention.
Currently, ARM architecture processors are trying to use as a base of WEB-servers and cloud solutions. In principle, they can play the role of a bridge between the supercomputer and the users. In its pure form ARM-platform can not yet match the performance of supercomputers on a x86-compatible and RISC-architecture.