Comments on: Is the Party Over for Exascale Ambitions? http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/28/is-the-party-over-for-exascale-ambitions/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: dude http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/28/is-the-party-over-for-exascale-ambitions/#comment-299001 dude Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:23:43 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=16953#comment-299001 "It would be tough to keep even a small fraction of those processors busy at the same time. Realistic applications running on today's supercomputers typically use only 5 to 10 percent of the machine's peak processing power at any given moment." That seems pretty wasteful to me, can't they run Folding@Home, World Community Grid or something else when the superPC isn't doing anything useful? “It would be tough to keep even a small fraction of those processors busy at the same time. Realistic applications running on today’s supercomputers typically use only 5 to 10 percent of the machine’s peak processing power at any given moment.”

That seems pretty wasteful to me, can’t they run Folding@Home, World Community Grid or something else when the superPC isn’t doing anything useful?

]]> By: Chris http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/28/is-the-party-over-for-exascale-ambitions/#comment-298800 Chris Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:12:55 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=16953#comment-298800 Was there an application DARPA had in mind beyond benchmarks? Have we already exhausted petascale computing? Was there an application DARPA had in mind beyond benchmarks? Have we already exhausted petascale computing?

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