[Beowulf] Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2

[Mark Hahn]

> You should not guide your infrastructure investments on SP/DP FLOPs/clk/core
> metric.

for sure!  especially because these peak FP rates are for cache-friendly,
optimally-vectorizable codes.  I'm not arguing that no one does large 
matrix-matrix operations, for instance, but rather that a lot of codes 
have hot loops that don't vectorize - or at least not 8 to 16-wide...

regards, mark hahn.