China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers

Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by gbrown_ on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:35AM (#11937539)

Whilst touched on in the linked article but not mentioned is that the codes for the Gordon Bell runs are in the 30-40 petaflop range of sustained application performance. That's not too shabby.

  According to TOP500 author Jack Dongarra, three scientific simulation codes run
  on TaihuLight have been chosen as Gordon Bell Prize finalists, two of which have
  managed to reach a sustained performance of 30 to 40 petaflops. The award is
  bestowed each year on the most noteworthy HPC application, based on “peak
  performance or special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on
  important science and engineering problems.”

Source: http://www.top500.org/news/china-tops-supercomputer-rankings...

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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by grkvlt on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:50PM (#11942224)

Here's something that's always bothered me. In the HPC and scientific computing world, it seems that the word 'program' is never used to refer to what is being run on the computers, rather it is always 'codes' (note plural) that are executed. Does anyone know when or why this split of terminology occurred?

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