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Re: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:45:01 -0400
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:42 EDT, Jay Sulzberger said:
This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The question remains, now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at their disposal, what are they going to do with it? And I wonder what the LINPACK rating for Storm is?
Its LINPACK rating is probably relatively poor, as LINPACK doesn't quite fit well in the "embarassingly parallel" category - if you split it across a million nodes, you *do* have some cross-node communication that needs to happen - and preferably *fast* (we're talking the kind of fast where they buy Infiniband or Myrinet gear because gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough)....
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