Many of us use powerful desktop PCs, and that means, one has to regularly keep up with its performance. It’s even worse when you’ve overclocked your computer because that’s when things get extremely ...

The Linpack benchmark measures how fast a computer solves dense systems of linear equations and measures a system’s floating-point computing power. The benchmark is based on Linpack, a software ...

I’ve had this paper on my desk to read for nearly a year now. It’s from Oct 2008, and it’s called “Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for High Performance Scientific Computing” by Edward Walker. It’s an ...

While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. It might not ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum ®, creator of Prodigy ®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today announced it has successfully completed vector-based High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) testing ...