It is obvious that a GPU is going to do floating point cals much faster than a CPU. But the question becomes is this "super computer" so fast for the tests they designed for it or is it fast for any application.
GPUs are required to do more floating point calculations but is there such huge demands on super computers running financial calculations for instance?
I can understand it might be of some interest to the scientific community. Especially to do with astronomy, where they wait for months to get access to computers fast enough to run models.
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It is obvious that a GPU is going to do floating point cals much faster than a CPU. But the question becomes is this "super computer" so fast for the tests they designed for it or is it fast for any application.
GPUs are required to do more floating point calculations but is there such huge demands on super computers running financial calculations for instance?
I can understand it might be of some interest to the scientific community. Especially to do with astronomy, where they wait for months to get access to computers fast enough to run models.