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Linpack HPL Performance On IBM EServer 326 And XSeries 336 Servers
White Papers This paper examines the performance of the Linpack benchmark on IBM eServer 326 (e326) and IBM eServer xSeries 336 (x336) systems. The e326 is powered by AMD Opteron processors, and the x336 is powered by Intel Xeon processors.
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
Running HPL LINPACK On IBM P690 EServer PSeries Clusters With SP Switch2-PCI Interconnect
White Papers The intent of this paper is to make recommendations for running the HPL version of LINPACK on IBM eServer pSeries p690 (1.3 Ghz POWER4) clusters with SP Switch2-PCI interconnect. HPL uses MPI to run a single LINPACK calculation in parallel across...
[September 28, 2004, 3:00]
IBM Dominates Supercomputing List
News He expects the Top500 to stick with the Linpack yardstick, though. Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee is working on a broader suite of tests so a government...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
AMD Climbs Supercomputing League Table
News It's based on an incomplete but useful measure of system performance, a speed test called Linpack. For the Linpack benchmark, results are measured in trillions or calculations per second, or teraflops.
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News The Protein Explorer reached the petaflop level, RIKEN said, though not using the conventional Linpack supercomputing speed test. For twice-yearly ranking of supercomputers called the Top500 list, computers are ranked on the basis of a benchmark...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News The Top500 list is based on a performance yardstick called Linpack, a calculation that represents only some aspects of supercomputer capability. The Linpack measurement, by comparison, is more a reflection of processor speed and count, which isn't...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Blue Gene/L Beats Own Speed Record
News When Blue Gene/L runs Linpack, each processor performs mathematical calculations. The speed is measured with a mathematical test called Linpack, but Top500 organizers acknowledge it has been an incomplete measurement of a computer's abilities.
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
IBM Loses Supercomputer Crown
News The current Top500 list is based on the Linpack measurement, which reflects how well processors work but excludes other computing qualities, such as how fast data can be transferred from one part of the system to another.
[November 29, 2001, 8:42]
Ethernet In The World's Top 500 Supercomputers
White Papers According to top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 supercomputers with the highest Linpack performance, the aggregate performance of the listed computers has grown 21% in the last seven months and 65% in the last year.
[February 8, 2008, 0:16]
Performance Of The AMD Opteron LS21 For IBM BladeCenter
White Papers The analysis includes memory bandwidth and latency using Stream and a proprietary benchmark, floating-point vector performance using High Performance Linpack (HPL) and performance of the SPEC CPU2000 speed and rate benchmarks.
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
NPO Saturn Gets Top Positions In The Field Of Aircraft Construction Due To Intel-Based IT Solutions
White Papers With peak performance of 922 Gflops and LINPACK performance of 769 Gflops, the system is one of the most powerful of its kind within Russian industrial companies and the fourth highest ranking computer in the Top 50 supercomputer listing at CIS...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
An Assessment Of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors And Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
White Papers This paper highlights the exceptional performance on IBM's POWER6 processor-based systems running with the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 operating system, based on recently audited published SPEC CPU2006 and SPECjbb2005 results...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Reading Supercomputer Tackles Climate Change
News Linked via a Myrinet interconnect platform, the system can reach a measured performance of 19.04 teraflops using the industry's Linpack benchmark. This machine has recorded a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 teraflops per second.
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
Opteron Flexes Supercomputing Muscles
News The Top 500 project measures the world's fastest supercomputers according to the Linpack benchmark, which focuses on solving linear equations. AMD's Opteron chip soared up the latest ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, while Intel's...
[June 28, 2006, 16:05]
Blue Gene Rises Up The Ranks
News The higher speed, measured with an algebraic calculation test called Linpack, puts IBM another notch ahead of Silicon Graphics, whose Columbia system at NASA reached 51.9 teraflops last fall. A second Blue Gene/L supercomputer has posted speed...
[June 13, 2005, 10:00]
IBM Cements Its Supercomputing Dominance
News It ranks computers by how many trillions of calculations per second, or teraflops, they can perform using algebraic calculations in a test called Linpack. Building one of the world's 10 fastest supercomputers takes a lot of work, but the prestige...
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
Blue Gene/L Cruises Past 100 Teraflop Barrier
News For running the basic performance test used to rank the top 500 computers (a test known as Linpack), each core can perform calculation work, but in many tasks one of the cores will be devoted to communications.
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
IBM's Blue Gene To Hit The Shelves
News A 16-rack configuration is the world record holder, able to perform at 70.7 teraflops, according to a convenient if imperfect speed test called Linpack. IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane.
[November 8, 2004, 13:53]
HP Dents IBM Supercomputer Dominance
News Performance is measured by a mathematical test called "Linpack," but list organisers are working to come up with a measurement that better reflects how well the supercomputers work in real life. IBM has seized six of the top ten spots in a list of...
[June 21, 2001, 9:31]
Linux And IBM Big Winners At SC2004
News Computers are scored by the Linpack benchmark, which is a convenient measurement, but which even list organisers recognise as an incomplete measurement of real-world ability. After two and a half years at the top of a list of the world's fastest...
[November 9, 2004, 13:33]
