On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:23:57PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not > by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The question remains, > now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at their > disposal, what are they going to do with it? And I wonder what the LINPACK > rating for Storm is?
Isn't most of the cost/complexity of super-computers the interconnect fabric and memory system, not the CPUs... Clearly for easy to partition problems this beats the "super-computer" systems, but many large problems won't tolerate Storm's interconnect latency... The LINPACK benchmarks on super-computers largely measure memory-bandwidth not CPU power, but the memory pre-fetch pipeline depth is not unbounded, most algorithms will stall if latency is too high... Simulations of supernova explosions or aircraft wing dynamics probably don't easily scale on Storm... -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON NOTICE: If received in error, \ / CAMPAIGN Victor Duchovni please destroy and notify X AGAINST IT Security, sender. Sender does not waive / \ HTML MAIL Morgan Stanley confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]