On 03/19/2013 06:06 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > out of your many foot in mouth statements over the years this must be > the worst. i can absolutely assure you there is an aspect of the HPC > community that does not care about DP, and cares more about SP > performance, and even more so about integer performance.
+10 (on the caring about things other than DP, and even SP). There's a fairly large cross section of people whose simulation, codes, etc. have to deal with other-than-*P performance issues. Instruction graduation rate, IO and network bandwidth ... all of these things matter for a large and growing segment of the HPC community. I've argued many times that basing the "fastest supercomputer" metric off a parallel LU decomposition manages to miss an ever larger segment of the HPC community, for whom that metric is not useful. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
