Abstract Description: Since 1993, The TOP500 list has served as the defining yardstick for supercomputing performance. And at SC17 in November, the 50th TOP500 list will be announced. Published twice a year, it is a compilation of the world’s 500 largest installations and some of their main characteristics. Systems are ranked according to their performance on the Linpack benchmark, […]
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ACM Gordon Bell Prize Recognizes Top Accomplishments in Running Science Apps on HPC
For the first time, SC conference releases a comprehensive list of all Gordon Bell winners since 1987. Here is that historical perspective. Each year at SC, two key indicators of HPC performance are highlighted. Both were created to provide a more accurate measure of overall performance than the theoretical peak performance levels sometimes touted by […]
1988 Gordon Bell Prize Creates Foundation for Successful HPC Career
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Deputy Director Horst Simon still displays the 1988 Gordon Bell Prize he shared in. Behind him is the 2009 Gordon Bell Prize awarded to a team he was a part of. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, LBNL. In the foyer of the main building at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a panel displaying […]
