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by Alec Muffett

New list of Top 500 Supercomputers

Go see [www.top500.org] ; I am quite pleased to see a number of grids with which I am familiar (viz: my colleagues built them, designed their network fabric, had me help debug, etc) down in the 300..500 region — as-is the system which my mate Chris runs for VPAC down at number 444.

I am also amused to at last realise quite how far-away from comprehensive this list is; I know several other grids which ought to be there but which are not, not because of any sneaky national-security reasoning, but only because the owners have not bothered to run LINPACK and submit results.

I truly would be interested to know what else is not on there.

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  1. Chris
    re: New list of Top 500 Supercomputers

    There are a lot of people who don’t actually care about getting onto the Top-500, as all it really does is measure how well your cluster runs LINPACK and not real world applications..

    There are some folks on the Beowulf list who are thinking about trying to create some more representative benchmarks, but as always you need to benchmark your cluster with the app or apps you’ll be running on it.

    At our place (VPAC – http http://www.vpac.org/) our clusters run all sorts of software, mostly written by our users, so that makes that part a bit difficult.. 🙂

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