How is this significant when considering using Delta HPCs supercomputer systems?
The greater parallelization that is possible for a certain job and its tasks, the faster speed up advantage you will attain by using Delta HPC’s supercomputers. A highly data intensive application that is highly parallelizable, such as a job utilizing ROCS or AMBER, will run several times more rapidly on Delta’s NUMA architecture than on a client’s Linux Cluster system. On the other hand, not all jobs and tasks will be suited to Delta HPC’s systems when Linux clusters are available to the client. Some jobs are more sequential and are therefore better performed on a Linux cluster system with high speed processors. For instance, a pattern recognition application such as BLAST is highly sequential. Consequently, many Linux cluster system will be able to run BLAST jobs at a faster rate than with Delta’s supercomputer systems.
