Sure, Cavium is not yet competitive for compute heavy workloads that make use of vectorization. For everything else, e.g. memory bandwidth bounded algos from wh

Sure, Cavium is not yet competitive for compute heavy workloads that make use of vectorization. For everything else, e.g. memory bandwidth bounded algos from what I gathered in benchmarks they are quite competitive. And those kind of workloads are actually quite common in HPC from my POV.