The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer: It's the interconnect, stupid!
November 17, 2010
I hope my title doesn't sound too condescending, and I apologize for stealing Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign slogan, but it's apparent to me that a lot of the talk on the Internet about the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer is sour grapes.
The whiny vinegar boils down to this: "That 2.6 petaflop/sec LINPACK score isn't that great because they didn't do anything special with the cores, just used existing Intel and Nvidia products with a fancy new interconnect. Anybody could have done that."
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