On 03/19/2013 05:12 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > +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. The MDGRAPE systems, for one.
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