[Full-disclosure] World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:42 EDT, Jay Sulzberger said:
>   This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not
>   by a government or megacorporation but by criminals.  The question remains,
>   now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at their
>   disposal, what are they going to do with it?  And I wonder what the LINPACK
>   rating for Storm is?

Its LINPACK rating is probably relatively poor, as LINPACK doesn't quite fit
well in the "embarassingly parallel" category - if you split it across a million
nodes, you *do* have some cross-node communication that needs to happen - and
preferably *fast* (we're talking the kind of fast where they buy Infiniband
or Myrinet gear because gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough)....
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