By: Robert Myers (rbmyersusa.delete@this.gmail.com), October 3, 2012 10:52 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on September 18, 2012 12:26 pm wrote:
> Our latest article has just gone online:
>
> "Near-threshold voltage computing
> extends the voltage scaling associated with Moore's Law and dramatically
> improves power and energy efficiency. The technology is superb for throughput,
> at the cost of latency, and best suited to Intel's products for HPC and mobile
> graphics."
>
I've sort of dropped this subject because I am busy with other things, but HPC workloads are not a uniform universe. As I have been repeatedly informed, latency is still a driving issue for many HPC workloads. I'd make the trade of latency vs. power, computational density, and/or bandwidth any day, but I don't know how many HPC users would agree.
Robert.
> Our latest article has just gone online:
>
> "Near-threshold voltage computing
> extends the voltage scaling associated with Moore's Law and dramatically
> improves power and energy efficiency. The technology is superb for throughput,
> at the cost of latency, and best suited to Intel's products for HPC and mobile
> graphics."
>
I've sort of dropped this subject because I am busy with other things, but HPC workloads are not a uniform universe. As I have been repeatedly informed, latency is still a driving issue for many HPC workloads. I'd make the trade of latency vs. power, computational density, and/or bandwidth any day, but I don't know how many HPC users would agree.
Robert.



