By: SHK (nomail.delete@this.mail.com), October 16, 2012 8:12 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
forestlaughing (forestlaughing.delete@this.yahoo.com) on October 15, 2012 8:02 am wrote:
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>
> There are a few odd-ball applications, very
> far from the linpack model, that do get their needs met. Cray builds their
> full-custom multithreaded machine for the spooks, in order to do their graph
> algorithm stuff. IBM has a weird bit-matrix machine thing, also for the spooks.
> NEC still sells vector machines, though it's not clear if they will continue
> doing so. The trick is that it takes a LOT of money to get a full custom
> machine, and the rest of the HPC world has to live with what is economically
> viable.
Unfortunatly i'm also skeptical about the future of NEC'S SX series, but IMHO today
the SX-9 is still the best "true" HPC system in use.
BTW, it's the first time i've heard of an IBM special bit-matrix machine,
do you have any more infos?
Thanks!
[snip]
>
> There are a few odd-ball applications, very
> far from the linpack model, that do get their needs met. Cray builds their
> full-custom multithreaded machine for the spooks, in order to do their graph
> algorithm stuff. IBM has a weird bit-matrix machine thing, also for the spooks.
> NEC still sells vector machines, though it's not clear if they will continue
> doing so. The trick is that it takes a LOT of money to get a full custom
> machine, and the rest of the HPC world has to live with what is economically
> viable.
Unfortunatly i'm also skeptical about the future of NEC'S SX series, but IMHO today
the SX-9 is still the best "true" HPC system in use.
BTW, it's the first time i've heard of an IBM special bit-matrix machine,
do you have any more infos?
Thanks!



