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Supercomputer sets petaflop pace
dave.m:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm
--- Quote ---The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.
It will be installed at a US government laboratory later this year where it will monitor the US nuclear stockpile.
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Makes you wonder how big their nuclear stockpile is! ??? I would have thought it was easy enough to count a few hundred (or even thousand) missiles with just a bog-standard calculator. :-\
dave
scottiesmum:
Perhaps it's time to get the inspectors in !!!!!!!
Floydoid:
What on earth is a petaflop?
dave.m:
--- Quote from: Floydoid on June 09, 2008, 12:00:29 PM ---What on earth is a petaflop?
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--- Quote ---the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.
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Not sure if that is an Imperial Second or a Metric Second but I think it is a touch faster than my Acer PC.
dave
tuftedduck:
Petaflop :D
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