An Empirical Study of HPC Workloads on Huawei Kunpeng 916 Processor

The ARM-based server processors have been gaining momentum in high performance computing (HPC). While not designed specifically for HPC, Huawei Kunpeng 916 processor has 32 ARMv8 cores and is tempting for HPC workloads. However, its potential remains unknown. To throughly understand the potential, we conducted a systematic evaluation in three steps by using: 1) three well-known benchmarks (HPL, STREAM, and LMbench); 2) three typical scientific...