RE: Scaling noise

From: Brown, Len
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 01:22:06 EST


> 5) NUMA machines are slow. There is not a single NUMA machine in the
> top 10 of the top500 supercomputers list. Likely this has more to
> do with system sizes supported by the manufacture than inherent
> process inferiority, but it makes a difference.

Hardware that is good at running linpack (all you gotta run to get onto
http://www.top500.org/ )isn't necessarily hardware that is any good at,
say, http://www.tpc.org/
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