[Beowulf] SC13: the Limulus boxen appear ...

[Joe Landman]

On 12/09/2013 12:11 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Responding to my own post, I recently tested the i7 haswell variant
> of our Limulus and was 1.7 GFLOPS short of 0.5 TFLOPS (498.3 GFLOPS)
> running HPL. I suppose with a little more fussing I could find
> 2 extra GFLOPS, but I'm impressed with what AVX2 with FMA can do,
> at least for HPL, I have not checked anything else yet.
>
> Latest results are here:
> http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/wiki/LimulusBenchmarks
>
> Has anyone else seen any similar big jumps in performance?
> (of course compiler support is needed)
>
>

Any source code mods for this?  Did you use Intel or GCC compilers? Nice 
results!

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