News - Microsoft shows off Azure for cloud-based research

[HEXUS]

Company demonstrates protein sequencing for a fraction of the cost.

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[miniyazz]

It was also able to demonstrate performance of over a gigaflop-per-watt

*ahem*
6870 - 2016GFLOPS - 151W TDP =~ 13.5GFLOPS/W

Even after accounting for other system components (and assuming they don't contribute GFLOPS) the system TDP would easily be under 300W and the GFLOPS/W over 7GFLOPS/W.

Or am I missing something?

[BullDogg]

Or am I missing something?

I'm afraid you'll have to follow up with Microsoft for that one.

[aidanjt]

fah > this.