LINPACK is about as useful of a benchmark as BogoMips. """. Genentech benefited from the high number of cores because its calculations were "embarrassingly par

LINPACK is about as useful of a benchmark as BogoMips. """. Genentech benefited from the high number of cores because its calculations were "embarrassingly parallel," with no communication between nodes, so performance stats "scaled linearly with the number of cores," Corn said.""" That is a direct quote from the article.