-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/14 07:37, James Cuff wrote:
> Repeat after me: > > "Top 500 scores mean nothing!" I was at a talk about the SKA project on Tuesday night here in Melbourne, and it touched on just this problem. They need about 7PF of FFTs alone. Unfortunately the top scorer on the Global FFT benchmark (part of the HPC challenge suite) is the K machine (10PF on HPL) which clocks almost 206TF, about 40 times less than what they need. http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/hpcc_results.cgi?orderby=MFF&sortorder=DESC&display=combo My photo of the speakers slide: https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/484099606418960384/photo/1 All the best, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlO0oSgACgkQO2KABBYQAh/sFgCfY0JEJOJrBO0z/b8B3mXF7ssQ hacAoJgTyQHvvd81gSrOk/QDl8TJBDWd =NgAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
