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What’s Ahead for Supercomputing’s Balanced Benchmark

March 21, 2018 Comments Off on What’s Ahead for Supercomputing’s Balanced Benchmark

We all know about the Top 500 supercomputing benchmark, which measures raw floating point performance. …

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A Closer Look at 2016 Top 500 Supercomputer Rankings

November 14, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

The bi-annual rankings of the Top 500 supercomputers for the November 2016 systems are now live. …

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Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers

November 14, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off on Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers

The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …

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Competition Heats Up In Cluster Interconnects

July 11, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Competition Heats Up In Cluster Interconnects

Any time a ranking of a technology is put together, that ranking is always called into question as to whether or not it is representative of reality. …

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A Look Inside China’s Chart-Topping New Supercomputer

June 20, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 7

Much to the surprise of the supercomputing community, which is gathered in Germany for the International Supercomputing Conference this morning, news arrived that a new system has dramatically topped the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest and largest machines. …

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