[Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

[Mark Hahn]

> "todays 1 gflop/watt" ?

press releases always put the new shiny thing in the best light.
they're probably thinking of a conventional compute node,
(say, 32 cores, 2.3 GHz, 4 flops/cycle, or 16c and 8 f/c - 
either way totalling 294 Gflops for 300W or less.)

> The K20X delivers 1.4 Tflop nearly.
> If i google it's 235 watt TDP.
>
> 1.4 Tflop / 235 =  6 gflops/watt

debatable whether we can honestly claim that's shipping.
K10 is .78 Gflops DP/W or 17.2 SP.  I wonder of the 75 goal
is merely a 4.4x improvement....