The Linpack benchmark measures how fast a computer solves dense systems of linear equations and measures a system’s floating-point computing power. The benchmark is based on Linpack, a software ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum ®, creator of Prodigy ®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today announced it has successfully completed vector-based High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) testing ...

While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. It might not ...

It is the nature of capability class supercomputers to try to push the envelope on as many different architectural fronts as possible. The very purpose of these machines to blaze a trail into the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new series of measurements -- the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers -- has rated Sandia National Laboratories' Red ...

The twice-annual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not universally loved, arguments persist whether the LINPACK benchmark is an optimal way to assess HPC system performance.

Armed with definitive benchmarks, we answer the burning question: Can Intel’s souped-up Xeon match the Opteron in the 64-bit x86 performance? To paraphrase Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, damn lies ...

Dongarra, now a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, later introduced the Linpack benchmark, which is used as the performance measure for ranking supercomputers ...