Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny

gManZboy writes: "Is it an oxymoron to have an efficient supercomputer? Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Laboratory) doesn't believe so - Green Destiny and its children are Transmeta-based supercomputers that Wu thinks are fast enough, at a fraction of the heat/energy/cost, according to ACM Queue." 240 processors running under 5.2kW (or less!) is nothing to sneeze at. The article offers up this question: might there be other metrics that might be important to supercomputing, rather than relying solely on processing speed?

Comments

Holy crap!

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew that sword was beefy, but that's insane!

Being green is important

[shaneb11716]

Especially when simulating nuclear weapons.

-Shane

Re:Money is finite too

[SiliBelgian]

But time is money, Mr. Redundant.
moving on...