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>> Hell, if I had any clue how much performance a current CPU delivers,
>> I'd know if these numbers are impressive or not! ;-)
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> Well, consider that a current CPU runs at some small multiple[1] of
> 3GHz, and it's unlikely to do more than some small multiple[2] of FLOPs
> per clock cycle, it sounds pretty fast to me.
Er, yes.
240 cores running 96 threads each yielding over 12,000 threads? That's
pretty parallel... ;-)
> I suspect the difference
> between "peak" and "sustained" for both is going to be based on how fast
> you can feed them numbers from RAM.
"A supercomputer is a device for turning a compute-bound problem into an
I/O-bound problem."
Of course, a GPU is way faster than a CPU, but that's because a GPU
can't do everything that a CPU can. (I emphasise: *because*.)
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