On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:42 EDT, Jay Sulzberger said:
This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been
controlled not
by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The question
remains,
now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at
their
disposal, what are they going to do with it? And I wonder what the
LINPACK
rating for Storm is?
Its LINPACK rating is probably relatively poor, as LINPACK doesn't quite
fit
well in the "embarassingly parallel" category - if you split it across a
million
nodes, you *do* have some cross-node communication that needs to happen -
and
preferably *fast* (we're talking the kind of fast where they buy
Infiniband
or Myrinet gear because gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough)....
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