Huinalu Linux SuperCluster

kragen at pobox.com kragen at pobox.com
Sat Mar 24 18:09:46 PST 2001


"Ron Brightwell" <rbbrigh at valeria.mp.sandia.gov> writes:
> Keep in mind that peak theoretical performance accurately measures your ability
> to spend money, while MPLinpack performance accurately measures your ability
> to seek pr -- I mean it measures the upper bound on compute performance from
> a parallel app.

A particular parallel app, not any arbitrary parallel app; if your
parallel app is SETI at Home, I'd expect to see numbers closer to peak
theoretical performance than to MPLinpack.





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