High Performance Computing (HPC) The HPC SIG was officially launched at Linaro Connect Las Vegas in September 2016 to drive the adoption of ARM in HPC through the creation of a data center ecosystem. It is a collaborative project comprised of members and an advisory board. Current members include ARM, HiSilicon, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, Cavium, Red Hat and HPE. CERN and Riken are on the advisory board. https://www.linaro.org/sig/hpc/

1. Introduction to the Linaro HPC-SIG
Q3 2017

2. The Linaro HPC SIG is a collaboration building on the work from open source projects
Leverage the Linaro Developer Cloud and other services to rapidly develop
cost-effective Cloud-based HPC development frameworks and generate
reference implementations for commercial prototyping and deployment
Lower deployment & management barriers
Machine learning and Deep learning are both critical to the future of HPC, specifically as
the path toward exascale computing. Driving engineering in HPDA and Machine learning
algorithms will aid the success of organizations to fully capitalize on these technologies
Enable the data-driven economy
HPC Special Interest Group
Identify and adopt standards to make HPC deployment on Arm a commercial
imperative. Develop real-world use cases that reap the benefits of Arm while ensuring
interoperability, modularization, orchestration
Driving enterprise-class, open-source HPC development on Arm
Members determine work to be completed by engineering resources while the advisory
board provides subject matter expertise on HPC requirements and guidance on the
ongoing HPC SIG strategic direction and roadmap
Member-driven with Advisory Board
HPC

3. HPC Special Interest Group
● Comprised of Members and an Advisory Board that provides:
○ Subject matter expertise on HPC requirements
○ Guidance and feedback on ongoing HPC SIG roadmap
○ Provide and review strategic direction
● A collaborative project which builds upon the foundations of the Arm Datacenter
● Will drive HPC open-source software development for the Arm HPC ecosystem
● Will provide:
○ Reference implementations
○ Cloud based development frameworks
● Aims to lower barriers to deployment and management through:
○ Standardisation
○ Interoperability
○ Modularisation
○ Orchestration
○ Use case development

4. Thank You