New Article: Compute Efficiency 2012

Article: Computational Efficiency for CPUs and GPUs in 2012
By: Unununium (none.delete@this.none.com), July 25, 2012 4:55 pm
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This chart was a bad idea when RWT published it years ago, and it's still a bad idea today. It's simplistic to the point of being wrong. Peak flops/mm and Peak flops/W don't matter. Otherwise, we would have seen widespread Silverthorne adoption in HPC after RWT crowned it king last time - which never happened.

What matters is delivered performance on applications people care about. This link at least attempts to address that question. The more interesting questions of delivered performance/$ and /W are harder to get at, but are the things that really drive decisions about which architecture to use. Peak flops/mm and Peak flops/W is marchitecture - the GHz wars all over again.

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              VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?EBFE2012/08/04 05:37 AM
                VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?aaron spink2012/08/04 05:51 PM
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                  Leaks != productsEBFE2012/08/06 01:49 AM
                VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?Eric2012/08/05 09:37 AM
                  VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?EBFE2012/08/06 02:09 AM
                    VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?aaron spink2012/08/06 03:33 AM
                      VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?jp2012/08/07 02:08 AM
                        VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?Eric2012/08/07 03:58 AM
                          VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?jp2012/08/07 04:17 AM
                            VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?Eric2012/08/07 04:22 AM
                              VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?anonymou52012/08/07 08:43 AM
                            VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?jp2012/08/07 04:23 AM
                              VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?aaron spink2012/08/07 06:24 AM
                        VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?aaron spink2012/08/07 06:20 AM
                          VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?jp2012/08/07 10:22 AM
                            VR-ZONE KNC B0 leak, poor number?EduardoS2012/08/07 02:15 PM
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                              "Global" --> systemnone2012/07/29 08:05 AM
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              Memory power and bandwidth?Michael S2012/08/04 01:36 PM
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