The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its programmability, has made graphics accelerators a compelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in a wide variety of application domains. Due to the great computational power of the GPU, the GPGPU method has proven valuable in various areas of science and [...]
Announced last week, the Russia TOP50 lists the fastest computers in Russia ranked according to Linpack benchmark results. This list provides an important tool for tracking usage trends in high-performance computing in Russia. Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches enable the fastest supercomputer on the Russian Top50 Supercomputer list with peak performance of 414 teraflops. [...]
