ARM64 distribution of CryoSPARC

The forefront of GPU and CPU hardware development is for ARM based architectures. When investing in both workstations and server grade components, finding x64-compatible hardware that is compatible with CryoSPARC is getting harder and harder. This is particular noticeable for academic users who are using publicly funded HPC systems where the hardware architecture is decided by the lowest bidder. But todays academic user will be tomorrows paying industry users. If the open-source competition can be compiled on ARM systems, that is what they will be trained on using.

What are the plans from the CryoSPARC team to release a ARM64-compatible version of CryoSPARC?

Here is a non-comprehensive list of HPCs which provides CryoSPARC capability to their users:

Canada Fir (Digital Research Alliance)
Finland CSC Puhti / Mahti
Poland Cyfronet AGH – Athena
Sweden HPC2N – Kebnekaise
Sweden NAISS / SciLifeLab – Berzelius
Sweden LUNARC
Switzerland EPFL SCITAS – Izar
Taiwan Academica Sinica Grid Comp. (ASGC)
United States Anvil (Purdue / ACCESS)
United States Caltech Central HPC
United States UConn Storrs HPC
United States Michigan State University ICER / HPCC
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We at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland also provide CryoSPARC for our user on the A100 GPU nodes but are waiting for the ARM64-compatible version to take advantage of the GH200 Grace Hopper superchips.

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This has been brought up multiple times. I believe CS devs are aware of the issue, but as far as I know, no public statement has been made.

Here at Cyfronet, Athena is aging and newer cluster is also based on GH200.