On 03/07/2014, Joseph Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > > > > 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.
Absolutely agree. Application level benchmarks for the codes the system is going to run. And also put that in as a simple acceptance test - does the cluster run code X on N processors in the time T you said it would? Wham bam thankyou. What are the audiences thoughts on the HPCC benchmarks? _______________________________________________ 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
