By brian on June 14, 2010
In the introduction for the “Paving the road to Exascale” series of posts (part 1), one of the items I mentioned was the “many many cores, CPU or GPUs”. The basic performance of a given system is being measured by flops. Each CPU/GPU is capable for X amount of flops (which can be calculated as [...]
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By brian on May 26, 2010
1996 was the year when the world saw the first Teraflops system. 12 years after, the first Petaflop system was built. It took the HPC world 12 years to increase the performance by a factor of 1000. Exascale computing, another performance jump by a factor of 1000 will not take another 12 years. Expectations indicate [...]
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