Did anyone notice we are coming up on a new
prefix?  GIMPS has performed over 800 quintillion
floating point operations in the seven years of
its existence, 800 exaflop.

I calculate that in about four months, we will
have collectively performed a sextillion floating
point operations, allowing me to legitimately
use a prefix I have never actually seen in use,
even to describe the absurdly large quantities
often associated with computing.  GIMPS will soon
complete the first zettaflop.

spike



 

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