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Skeptical Greg
17th November 2003, 05:11 AM
I find this mind boggling...

IBM gives glimpse of Blue Gene performance (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5107422.html)

The speedy machine is part of an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform 1 quadrillion calculations per second, or one petaflop.
arcticpenguin
17th November 2003, 12:52 PM
Take two, they're small.
El Greco
17th November 2003, 12:58 PM
Which raises the need for more prefixes, since we are left with only exaflop, zettaflop and yottaflop ;)
Skeptoid
17th November 2003, 01:10 PM
Howzabout cowflop? :D
epepke
23rd November 2003, 07:37 PM
The eighties made 1-d computation feasible and commonplace (word processing, etc.).

The nineties made 2-d computation feasible and commonplace (multimedia, Open GL and Direct X).

With any luck, the naughties will make 3-d computation feasible and commonplace (volume visualization, etc.).
Yahweh
23rd November 2003, 08:26 PM
The speedy machine is part of an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform 1 quadrillion calculations per second, or one petaflop.

I saw a large fat man dive into the water from 20 feet in the air, it was the greatest bellyflop I've ever seen performed...
shanek
23rd November 2003, 08:27 PM
Originally posted by El Greco
Which raises the need for more prefixes, since we are left with only exaflop, zettaflop and yottaflop ;)

They've added on zetta now, so we should be good for another five years. :D

I personally wanted to see them adopt the proposal to use the Marx Brothers' names...
Zep
24th November 2003, 12:04 AM
Originally posted by shanek
They've added on zetta now, so we should be good for another five years. :D

I personally wanted to see them adopt the proposal to use the Marx Brothers' names... :D :D :D Oh, I agree with this wholeheartedly, Shane!
arcticpenguin
24th November 2003, 08:00 AM
http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20031114_bluegene.shtml


BM today announced that a computer roughly the size of a 30-inch television has been ranked as the 73rd most powerful supercomputer in the world.
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even though it occupies a mere half-rack of space, about one cubic meter.

Maybe they could downsize it a little more so I can install one in my laptop.