Cray Introduces Adaptive Supercomputing 108
David Greene writes "HPCWire has a story about Cray's newly-introduced vision of Adaptive Supercomputing. The new system will combine multiple processor architectures to broaden applicability of HPC systems and reduce the complexity of HPC application development. Cray CTO Steve Scott says, 'The Cray motto is: adapt the system to the application - not the application to the system.'"
Good Linux Journal Article On This (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8368/print [linuxjournal.com]
Re:Supercomputing v Distributed Computing (Score:3, Informative)
Well yes, they are very different. Processor speed is clock rate and tells you precisely jack shit about how much work can actually be done. Computing power is better measured in operations per second. Typically we measure integer and floating point performance separately. Even those benchmark numbers are usually pretty useless; hence we have the SPECint and SPECfp benchmarks which supposedly exercise the CPU in a way more similar to real-world use.
Re:Complexity, current machines (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cray as a company in general (Score:5, Informative)
The Cray we know now shares a name with the Cray that produced the famous Cray supercomputers of old, they also have some nice technology around, but there the similarities stop.
Re:Good Motto (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Buzz word. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Old Story (Score:2, Informative)
SGI has a 2nd generation product [sgi.com] based on this: RASC, which is a node board with 2 FPGA chips that integrates (same access to shared memory) with the rest of the machines Itanium node boards.
Re:Adaptive = Adapting for Survive (Score:4, Informative)