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15 Feb 2012, 6:18 am

(clicky)10 pflop puter! fascinating. i wonder what work a regular type of PC could do with that kind of horsepower? alternate question- if all the world's [otherwise idle] PCs were put to work on the types of problems such a supercomputer would be tackling, would the distributed computing performance equal the 10 petaflops of this new supercomputer?



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15 Feb 2012, 7:12 am

auntblabby wrote:
(clicky)10 pflop puter! fascinating. i wonder what work a regular type of PC could do with that kind of horsepower? alternate question- if all the world's [otherwise idle] PCs were put to work on the types of problems such a supercomputer would be tackling, would the distributed computing performance equal the 10 petaflops of this new supercomputer?

Too big for my room. =/ And, while I can't find it in the article, I PRESUME it has more than one core, so algorithms that can't be parallelized would probably not be that fun. But I'd reeeeeaaaaally like to borrow it for some calculations sometimes in the future. @.@