energy costs

[Josip Loncaric]

>>PS Pentium 4 sustained performance from memory is about
>>   5% of peak (stream triad).
> 
> that should be 50%, I think.

Our CFD codes are mostly memory bandwidth limited, so they deliver real life 
Mflop/s performance of about (Pentium CPU MHz)/10, i.e. about 5% of peak. 
Crays tend to be about 5 times more efficient, but this is highly dependent on 
how well code vectorizes.

Sincerely,
Josip

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