- Joined
- Jul 20, 2002
In SpecINT and SpecFP Intel clearly dominates. It also has the top spot in Rmax (tested, verifiable GFlops) for Processor Generation, June 2015. The most powerful HPC cluster according to LINPACK is also an Intel-based cluster (out of the PRC). There is one supercomputer in the top three (and 4 in the top 10) that uses the 45nm Power architecture, but there's nothing on what Power generation CPU is being used.
I've read that x86 in general doesn't do too well on the benchmark metrics used to measure performance in the Enterprise DB world. Is this true? What are the go-to CPU's in the Enterprise DB world? Sparc64?
Strangely enough, the 2nd most powerful HPC cluster in the world, according to the LINPACK benchmark is an Opteron 6274 based cluster, but that's probably because the Opterons aren't being directly used to run the LINPACK benchmark, but the Nvidia K20x's installed in the chassis are:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2015/06/
I've read that x86 in general doesn't do too well on the benchmark metrics used to measure performance in the Enterprise DB world. Is this true? What are the go-to CPU's in the Enterprise DB world? Sparc64?
Strangely enough, the 2nd most powerful HPC cluster in the world, according to the LINPACK benchmark is an Opteron 6274 based cluster, but that's probably because the Opterons aren't being directly used to run the LINPACK benchmark, but the Nvidia K20x's installed in the chassis are:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2015/06/
Last edited: