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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: dave.m on June 09, 2008, 11:23:39 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm
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.
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
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Perhaps it's time to get the inspectors in !!!!!!!
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What on earth is a petaflop?
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What on earth is a petaflop?
the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.
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
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Petaflop :D
(https://forum.kitz.co.uk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi100.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fm34%2Fbunessan%2Fpetaflop.jpg&hash=dc82f0cf9963f6e1b87e2a61d3ece3a43444307b)
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:lol:
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Peta- is like Mega- and Giga- but means 1 thousand trillion.
Flops are "FLoating-point OPerations per Second" - Floating point operations being mathematical calculations involving non-integer numbers.
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hmm if i had that I might be able to run BattleField 2142 :thumbs: