Are we talking flops our club is using to fold? or flops we collectively have access to? or personally own?
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:06, Barker, Gerald A (MD) wrote: > 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?) > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 ---------------------------------------------------------------
