Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers
by Retric on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:51AM
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CPU performance is not that important when building a supercomputer it's more budget * performance per node / price per node. Performance per node is useful as most workloads only scale so far.
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Yes, but that is exactly what people are generally looking for in cloud machines. But I guess we need a benchmark that is oriented to web application development such as serving N nginx/go/nodejs requests per second, or running a MySQL/Postgres/MondoDB server at a certain load.