Whilst touched on in the linked article but not mentioned is that the codes for the Gordon Bell runs are in the 30-40 petaflop range of sustained application pe

Whilst touched on in the linked article but not mentioned is that the codes for the Gordon Bell runs are in the 30-40 petaflop range of sustained application performance. That's not too shabby. According to TOP500 author Jack Dongarra, three scientific simulation codes run on TaihuLight have been chosen as Gordon Bell Prize finalists, two of which have managed to reach a sustained performance of 30 to 40 petaflops. The award is bestowed each year on the most noteworthy HPC application, based on “peak performance or special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on important science and engineering problems.” Source: http://www.top500.org/news/china-tops-supercomputer-rankings-with-new-93-petaflop-machine/ http://www.top500.org/news/china-tops-supercomputer-rankings...