Not all of the Top500 systems are really HPC systems. Several systems are basically used for enterprise applications but before moving them into the "production" environment, the associate vendor run the Linpack benchmark and submit the system to the list. Check out http://www.hpcwire.com/features/17905159.html. Somewhat old but still valid for some cases.
Gilad -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mikhail Kuzminsky Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Beowulf] top500 clusters using Last top500 lists contain a set of sites which are not from HPC world. I understand that there may be parallelized applications which may use whole cluster for one task, but this task isn't floating-point oriented. But (in top500) there is a set of "unnamed" sites like "IT service provider" etc. IMHO they may use clusters for Web-hosting etc, where may be load balancing is used. I.e. it's not "supercomputer" (I means computer, all CPUs/cores of which may be used for solving of one task). Am I right - or they really work w/applications, which may involve whole cluster for one task solving ? Mikhail Kuzminsky Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS Moscow _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
