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They are great for integer stuff (e.g. most bioinformatics) but the floating point performance is bad. On 14 November 2013 14:41, Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- > > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jensen, Jens (STFC,RAL,SC) > > > > The premise is to go "greener" by running stuff on ARM CPUs. They get > > fewer events per minute per core than on Xeons, but more events per > minute > > per Watt. > > > On a somewhat related note, Viglen mentioned the other day that they > have some Intel Atom based blade things coming along sometime next > year that might be interesting; lower power than a Xeon, but still > with decent amounts of memory and x86_64. > > Ewan >