8 Mar
2004
8 Mar
'04
2:04 p.m.
a system I found at the noaa had four processors and
was rated at 200 MFlop/s
http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/NCO/NCCF/NCEP-HPC/tsld005.htm
ORNL eval of opteron showed 2*Mhz. their test was on a 1800mhz or 3600 MFlop /
sec
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/opteron/
sounds like the opteron might win.
While the Opteron might in fact win (let's face it - the Js were not
really supercomputers), that comparison simply does not hold water.
Mflops are basically meaningless unless they can be sustained.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org