HPC
Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves
While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …
Top 500
HPC
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Compute
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …
Connect
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. …
HPC
The Art Of Supercomputing War
The shenanigans with the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers continues, but there are a bunch of real supercomputers that were added to the list for the June 2018 rankings, and we are thankful, as always, to gain the insight we can glean from the Top 500 on these new machines that are clearly used for HPC workloads. …
HPC
What’s Ahead for Supercomputing’s Balanced Benchmark
We all know about the Top 500 supercomputing benchmark, which measures raw floating point performance. …
Compute
Top 500 Supercomputer Rankings Losing Accuracy Despite High Precision
If the hyperscalers have taught us anything, it is that more data is always better. …
Code
Top Chinese Supercomputer Blazes Real-World Application Trail
China’s massive Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer sent ripples through the computing world last year when it debuted in the number-one spot on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. …
HPC
Rise of China, Real-World Benchmarks Top Supercomputing Agenda
The United States for years was the dominant player in the high-performance computing world, with more than half of the systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers being housed in the country. …
Connect
Networks Drive HPC Harder Than Compute
It is hard to tell which part of the HPC market is more competitive: compute, networking, or storage. …