I want to run on arm architecture

[KwonMinho]

Tried to run polygon zkevm on arm architecture. (with docker)

However, the zkevm-prover component did not run. (because of cpu architecture)

I have two questions here.

1. Why arm architecture is not supported by zkevm-prover?.. What are the challenges?

2. Is there any way to run zkevm-prover on arm architecture?

[KwonMinho]

Sharing answers received from polygon forum.

https://forum.polygon.technology/t/question-about-how-to-run-zkevm-prover-in-an-arm-environment/10704/3

[eduadiez]

Why arm architecture is not supported by zkevm-prover?

Mainly it's currently not supported because we have implemented optimizations only for the x86_64 architecture, especially for the case of BN128 curve since we use ffiasm, although we also have optimizations for goldilocks with the AVX2 instruction set.

What are the challenges?

In order to reach a performance level close to x86_64, it would be necessary to have a vectorized version with the ARM instruction set for both primes.

Is there any way to run zkevm-prover on arm architecture?

Sorry but it's not possible at this time

Also keep in mind that ~480GB of available ram is currently required, and there are not many ARM instances with this capacity

[KwonMinho]

Interesting!!

thank you for the reply.