EasyBuild Tech Talks II: Arm

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• talk title: Yes! You Can Run Your Software on Arm.
• speakers: Chris Edsall (University of Bristol, UK)
• date & time: Wed September 30th 2020 at 5pm CEST (3pm UTC)
• practical info: online talk
  • streamed via YouTube, recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKiNwupjrWA
  • Q&A via EasyBuild Slack (#tech-talks channel)
• slides (PDF)
• notes:
  • preview video now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agi2kcg2V8
  • we plan to record this session and make it available via the EasyBuild YouTube channel shortly afterwards
  • for questions, please contact kenneth.hoste@ugent.be

Topics

• Arm architectures & ISAs
• Arm CPU implementations for HPC
• Vector instructions and SVE supported by Arm CPUs
• Compilers & libraries for Arm systems
• Systems with aarch64 CPUs
• Software that supports aarch64 systems
• CI for aarch64

Speaker bio

Chris Edsall is a research software engineer based at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and associated with the Isambard/Isambard2 project - the world's first production scale Arm based supercomputer. Previous to this he worked in several earth science based research institutions (NIWA in New Zealand and the National Oceanography Center in the U.K.) looking after the provision of HPC resources for researchers. His first supercomputer was the Alpha based Cray T3E followed by an IBM POWER system, along the way he has seen the occasional Intel based cluster. He is looking forward to using the new Arm A64fx processors.