Interestingly, the machine is more power-efficient as compared to its predecessor, and draws 15.3 Megawatts(MW) of power while running
Linpack, whereas its predecessor drew 17.8 MW.
We also currently don't have
Linpack (Single and Multi-Thread) scores for the Samsung Galaxy Grand and LG Nexus 4.
Provider of HPC and data centre solutions SGI (Nasdaq:SGI) today announced that NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, was certified by the TOP500 list as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world as measured by the
LINPACK Benchmark.
Tianhe, at a cost of 600 million yuan, ranks first on China's Top 100 supercomputer list released in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, with a theoretical peak performance of 1.206 petaflops and a
Linpack performance of 560 teraflops.
Twice a year, the Top500 list ranks the world's top 500 supercomputers on their speed in running a benchmark program, High-Performance
Linpack, or HPL.
- Delivers over 17% greater
LINPACK performance than a 16-core HP rx8620
As part of the investigation, the rack has been subjected to monthly robustness testing and ongoing performance evaluation while running applications such as High Performance
Linpack, parts of the NASA NPB-2 Benchmark Suite, and NW Chem.
It is based on the
Linpack benchmark, which measures a computer's floating-point rate of executing linear equations and is expressed in Gigaflops (Gflop/s) or billions of floating point operations per second.
Coteus says that IBM has run the
Linpack Fortran benchmark on the prototype, and that it has run at just under 70% efficiency.