Mr O wrote: > IBM plans to build a computer operating at 1 quadrillion floating-point > operations per second to attack problems such as protein folding." > > There goes our standings.
Unless we get one too. (-: 1 QFLOPS over 64K processors means each processor is running at 15 GFLOPS. Are there any off the shelf CPUs today that come anywhere near 15 GFLOPS? Clock speeds are around 2 GHz, so even if you optimistically assume 2 FLO per clock, that's only 4 GFLOPS. (How *do* you capitalize GFLOPS? GFlops? GFlOPS?) -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
