So just for interest how many flops is the combined processing of our club?
-Garry
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:03 AM
To: Mr O
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:1654] Re: protien folding trouble :-)
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?)
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Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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