Researchers at HP, chipmaker ARM, and Facebook have dreamt up a new breed of server processor specifically designed to provide quick and efficient access to information on the web’s most popular services. In a paper due to be published next month, the researchers...
The compute cluster is based on ARM-based Viridis systems from Boston Ltd. that are powered by Calxeda’s EnergyCore SoCs. The efforts by ARM Holdings and its partners to get their low-power chips into the data center is getting a boost with the Red Hat-sponsored...
Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top supercomputers. "History...