[Beowulf] China to eclipse Titan with 48,000 Intel MICs?

[Douglas Eadline]

> And on SlashDot
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/1231256/full-details-uncovered-on-chinese-tianhe-2-supercomputer
>
> If you want to read a lot of comments from people who don't really know
> HPC

Yes, whenever there is a Slashdot post about HPC (or anything
else for that matter) slashperts* generally provide inane
comments that often get pushed to the top. Much of it is
very repetitive - new story, same wrong notions about HPC.
In that past I have tried to supply some help, but
I find it pretty much worthless at this point. In fairness there
are sometimes insightful comments, but these are becoming harder to find.
These days, I read http://alterslash.org/ to get a quick summary.

* commenter on Slashdot who have no idea what they are talking about,
do not read much (including the linked articles), and when
challenged will often cut&paste Wikipedia or further verify
Goodwin's law.

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> From: Nathan Moore <ntmoore at gmail.com<mailto:ntmoore at gmail.com>>
> Date: Monday, June 3, 2013 9:55 AM
> To: Christopher Samuel
> <samuel at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:samuel at unimelb.edu.au>>,
> "beowulf at beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf at beowulf.org>"
> <beowulf at beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf at beowulf.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] China to eclipse Titan with 48,000 Intel MICs?
>
> Congratulations on making the world's largest space-heater...
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Christopher Samuel
> <samuel at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:samuel at unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
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> On 30/05/13 14:51, Christopher Samuel wrote:
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>> Rumours are strengthening about a new 50+ PF system in China (Tianhe-2)
>> which will have an Rpeak of 53-55PF and Rmax of 27-29PF.
>
> Full specs..
>
> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-02/full_details_uncovered_on_chinese_top_supercomputer.html
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> quoting:
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> http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/tianhe-2-dongarra-report.pdf
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> # achieved 30.65 petaflops out of a theoretical peak of
> # 49.19 petaflops, or an efficiency of 62.3% of theoretical
> # peak performance taking a little over 5 hours to complete.
>
> 17MW for just compute or 24MWs including column..
>
> cheers,
> Chris
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