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Monday October 12, 2009 Sun Blades: Outstanding Performance on WRF Weather Code
Sun continues to set new performance levels with Intel Nehalem processors. The BestPerf Blog presents exciting results for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) code running on twelve Sun Blade X6275 server modules, housed in the Sun Blade 6048 chassis, using the 2.5 km CONUS benchmark dataset.
* The Sun Blade X6275 cluster was able to achieve 373 GFLOP/s on the CONUS 2.5-KM Dataset.
* The results demonstrate an 91% speedup efficiency, or 11x speedup, from 1 to 12 blades.
* The current results results were run with turbo on.
Read the Full Story.
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( October 12, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
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