[Fwd: Benchmarking Beowulf]

[Greg Lindahl]

> > Yes. It's handy to call that number "MachoFLOPS" in order to make this
> > clear. "BogoMIPS" are similar.
> > 
> 
> Sure, I think we agree on the general theme. A similar expression is
> "embarrasingly parallel".

No; there are real problems which are embarrassingly parallel, so
that's not as good of an example.

>   If you have spent "years in scientific computing" I am surprised to
> learn that you have never come across an application that involved,
> 
>   * systems of linear equations   
>   * linear least squares problems 
>   * eigenvalues and eigenvectors  
>   * singular value decomposition
>   
> of dense matrices.

I haven't. And I've been doing CFD for most of the time. Just goes to
show that computational science is pretty varied, eh?

-- greg