Title
Evaluating Systems on Chip through HPC Bioinformatic and Astrophysic Applications
Abstract
Low power Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), originally developed in the context of mobile and embedded technologies, are becoming attractive for the scientific community given their increasing computing performances, coupled with relatively low cost and power demand. In this work, we investigate the potential of SoCs for realistic scientific workloads, in particular taken from the bioinformatics and astrophysics domains. We selected a series of parallel, computationally intensive scientific applications and ported them to a cluster of development boards based on low power SoCs. The performance results obtained for the different applications are reported and compared with those obtained on a typical x86 HPC node.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/PDP.2016.82
Parallel, Distributed and network-based processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
SoC,system on chip,gromacs,namd,hpc,gadget
x86,System on a chip,Gadget,Computer science,Parallel computing,Server,Power demand,Porting,Mobile telephony,Benchmark (computing),Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1066-6192
3
0.44
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucia Morganti1175.02
Daniele Cesini2309.51
Andrea Ferraro3143.27