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For anyone wondering about the "back to 1" part: the Chinese very recently (this week?) took the spot with their 2.5 petaflop Tianhe-1A. It's made from Xeons,
by revertts 16y ago
For anyone wondering about the "back to 1" part: the Chinese very recently (this week?) took the spot with their 2.5 petaflop Tianhe-1A. It's made from Xeons, Fermis, and Feiteng-100s. Right now they're having trouble actually utilizing the machine; very little of their software takes advantage of more than a modest number of cores.
- eerpini 16y agomostly the problems with utilizing the system completely are the same ones a common programmer faces when trying to use GPUs for general purpose programming, the problem of transferring the data to be handled from the main memory to the GPU's memory. Though Tianhe-1A has a very high peak performance, the sustained performance seems to be comparatively low !