Better benchmarking for supercomputers

  • Authors:
  • M. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

People today typically judge supercomputers in terms of their raw number-crunching power, for example by asking how many linear algebra problems they can solve in a second. But, the scientists argue, the lion's share of challenging supercomputing problems in the 2010s requires quick and efficient processing of petabyte and exabyte-size data sets. And good number crunchers are sometimes bad exascale sifters.