Migrating High Performance Applications to the Armv8-A Architecture

By _arm - arm Blogs

November 8, 2017

In recent months, the HPC market has been waiting to see how Arm will drive innovation for High Performance Computing. Arm and its partners have been working hard to enable a greater variety of competitive hardware solutions, providing the innovation and technology choice that’s so desperately needed to solve next generation scientific problems and workloads. With Arm-based infrastructure hardware emerging from key partners such as Cavium and Qualcomm, the final step is making sure that the journey to the Arm architecture has a viable and straightforward porting path for users' applications.

By acquiring Allinea and announcing support for openHPC in 2016, Arm demonstrated a firm commitment to putting resources into nurturing an ecosystem of commercial and open-source software support for those migrating to Arm. Now, with the addition of the Allinea tools and the launch of a new Fortran Compiler, suddenly Arm has a very strong offering for HPC. The cross-platform interoperability of the Allinea debugger and profiler (fully supported on most HPC systems and architectures) is essential for making a transition to Arm as smooth as possible. As an HPC developer, you can keep using the tools you have come to know, trust and rely on for years, regardless of the vendor or system you choose. It’s all part of a plan to make porting your applications to Arm totally effortless and (dare we say)…boring!

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