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Investigate potential of Arm based instances
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Description
We have a new team likely to start using MAAP and one question that came up, was if MAAP Hub and DPS could support Arm processor instances. This isn't a requirement, but a potential nice to have as it may speed up some of their computationally intensive matrix math. So I've outlined some basic questions to answer. We don't need this answer until the end of the PI in September.
Acceptance criteria
- Can the Hub run Arm instances, assuming Conda - JH @aprilmj @yuvipanda
- Does Pangeo have Arm builds of it's containers? - Sc @wildintellect
- Can DPS have Arm based job queues - JPL @sujen1412
- What's the cost difference? i.e. how much faster does it need to be to make it worthwhile
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Research direction
Start with the open acceptance criterion for cost difference, using the MAAP Hub, DPS job queues, and Pangeo container questions as context. Compare Arm and non-Arm pricing and performance for the relevant workloads, then document whether the speed improvement makes Arm instances worthwhile.
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