When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All

Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by SEJeff on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:19PM (#12220679)

The Linpack benchmark, which is the gold standard for the top500 super computer list you're referring to, can be gamed with a shitload of GPUs. The Chinese computers you're referring to simply have an enormous amount of GPUs. These aren't generalized computers, but quite specialized one.

It is quite historic on its own, but the utility isn't quite what you might expect.

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Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by zerohp on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:22PM (#12222262)

A system built with the same peak flops using GPUs would actually be more useful than what they built. The Sunway TaihuLight processing elements have 64KB scratchpad, no data cache, and have less memory bandwidth than Nvidia Fermi (7 years old.)

For most applications the processing elements will be so starved for data that they are just an idle waste of energy.

http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-...

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