High Performance Computing 1
Amdahl’s Law and Petaflops
Computing
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Then by Amdahl’s Law,
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Sustained performance
<
10
15
/ [0.9/10
5
+
0.1/10
3
]
•
=
9.2 x 10
12
flop/s,
•
which is only about 1% of the system’s
presumed achievable performance.