DocumentCode
3610505
Title
The TOP500 List and Progress in High-Performance Computing
Author
Strohmaier, Erich ; Meuer, Hans W. ; Dongarra, Jack ; Simon, Horst D.
Author_Institution
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume
48
Issue
11
fYear
2015
Firstpage
42
Lastpage
49
Abstract
For more than two decades, the TOP500 list has enjoyed incredible success as a metric for supercomputing performance and as a source of data for identifying technological trends. The project´s editors reflect on its usefulness and limitations for guiding large-scale scientific computing into the exascale era.
Keywords
parallel processing; scientific information systems; TOP500 list; exascale era; high-performance computing; large-scale scientific computing; supercomputing performance; technological trends; Benchmark testing; Computer architecture; High performance computing; Market research; Program processors; Scientific computing; Supercomputers; Linpack; TOP500; application performance; benchmarks; high-performance computing; parallel computing; scientific computing; supercomputers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2015.338
Filename
7328648
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