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TOP500 can be done with inexpensive silicon. It is more about a willingness to aggregate enough hardware in one place. As a benchmark, it tells you almost nothi
by jandrewrogers 4mo ago
TOP500 can be done with inexpensive silicon. It is more about a willingness to aggregate enough hardware in one place. As a benchmark, it tells you almost nothing about computing power or scalability for other applications because it doesn't exercise the bottlenecks most high-scale applications have.
- NitpickLawyer 4mo ago> TOP500 can be done with inexpensive silicon. Didn't the DoD at one point build a 1k+ PS3 cluster based on their multi-core chip and had a mini supercomputer CotS? I remember Sony not liking that people were buying them for other things rather than gaming (iirc they were losing money on hardware at the time) so they bricked linux support soon after.
- packetslave 4mo ago> Didn't the DoD at one point build a 1k+ PS3 cluster based on their multi-core chip and had a mini supercomputer CotS? The Air Force did (Condor) and it hit #33 on the 2010 Top500.
- rbanffy 4mo agoThe PS3 was sold at a loss, so their numbers are skewed.