'Data motion metric' needed for supercomputer rankings, says SDSC's Snavely

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 11:31 in Mathematics & Economics

As we enter the era of data-intensive research and supercomputing, the world's top computer systems should not be ranked on calculation speed alone, according to Allan Snavely, associate director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.

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