The Green500 – Worlds Most Energy-Efficient Supercomputers
The Green500 list of the worlds most energy-efficient supercomputers was released today and NVIDIA sent out a press release showing off that four supercomputers in the top 10 are powered by NVIDIA Tesla GPUs! It would be interesting to see the list of the most power hungry supercomupers! You can see the top ten most energy-efficient supercomputers in the forums.
GPUs have quickly become the enabling technology behind the worlds top supercomputers. They contain hundreds of parallel processor cores capable of dividing up large computational workloads and processing them simultaneously. This significantly increases overall system efficiency as measured by performance per watt. Top500 supercomputers based on heterogeneous architectures are, on average, almost three times more power-efficient than non-heterogeneous systems.
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