To me it seems that the top lines of the Top500 list have become more about nation-state appendage measuring than about real science.
China spiked the ball squarely in jump-the-shark territory. Tianhe-2 will likely end up like most of the venues built for the Beijing Summer Olympics. On 7/2/14, 4:48 PM, Joseph Landman wrote: > On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:31 PM, James Cuff <james_c...@harvard.edu> wrote: > > > Let this be a lesson to us all. > > Repeat after me: > > "Top 500 scores mean nothing!" > > > > But ... But ... Shiny ... Precious ... > > Please pardon brevity and typos ... Sent from my iPhone > > As a community we have to stop this madness! 100k / day. Sigh. > > > Now just get all those writing rfps to stop with the madness. The number > and it's pursuit are one of the more significant causes of entropy (as in > waste heat generation ) as I have ever seen. A dubious metric at best with > extremely limited, if any, correlation to end user realizable performance. > > > > J. > > On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Jeff Johnson <jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com> > wrote: > >> $100,000 (USD) per day to operate, users get billed. >> >> "It's like a giant with a super body but without the software to >> support its thinking soul," Chi said. Some users would need years or >> even a decade to write the necessary code, he added. >> >> Ouch... >> >> On 7/2/14, 2:21 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: >>> On 07/ 3/14 04:17 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>>> If they want to spend a bazillion dollars to run hpl faster than anyone >>>> else who am I to stop them. >>>> >>>> If however they want to do real science perhaps they need to architect >>>> something more manageable. >>>> >>>> They should bust that thing up into 3 or 4 clusters. >>>> >>>> On 7/2/14, 2:11 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote: >>>>> China's world-beating supercomputer fails to impress some potential >>>>> clients >>>>> >>>>> >> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-imp >>> replied too fast the above link gets cut >>> So paste "ress-some-potential-clients" at the end or here it is again >>> >> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543226/chinas-world-beating-supercomputer-fails-impress-some-potential-clients >>> >> -- ------------------------------ Jeff Johnson Co-Founder Aeon Computing jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com www.aeoncomputing.com t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845 m: 619-204-9061 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite D - San Diego, CA 92117 High-performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage _______________________________________________ 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
