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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