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Wow that computer is impressive. This was the part of the article that put it into perspective for me:

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.
 
sooo ryan would that new pc be comparable to 1.8ghz dual processor laptop?? or would i still have the edge :) LOLOL.... i think i can get atleast 2000 processes per second :)... lol....
 
:p funny thing is... in about 10-15 years... that computer will be like what a C64 is today... mainframes used to be that size back in the 70's... now you can get a IBM Z series mainframe thats a little bigger than a refrigerator LOL...

I don't care what kinda processing power it has... the real question is... can it beat kasparov at chess :D
 
In 50 years, "computers" will just be this glowing orb of plasma that beams information directly to another chip in your brain. :eek: I'm guessing they will be able to shrink the size of Roadrunner into about the same size as the smallest laptops in 10-15 years.... Nanotechnology is really taking off. :rock:
 
Yeah its impresive, but what does it dyno...give me some numbers!
 
BurntRubber said:
Yeah its impresive, but what does it dyno...give me some numbers!
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well on a computer dyno... that would equate to FLOPS... This computer can do 1,000 trillion operations per second... 1,000 trillion is actually 1 quadrillion... yes that's 15 zeros...

so your next question is... what's the power to weight ratio...
1,000,000,000,000,000<FLOP> / 500,000<POUNDS>=2,000,000,000 or 2 billion per pound.... that sounds high but i checked it twice and believe it's accurate :)
 
tidnab said:
well on a computer dyno... that would equate to FLOPS... This computer can do 1,000 trillion operations per second... 1,000 trillion is actually 1 quadrillion... yes that's 15 zeros...

so your next question is... what's the power to weight ratio...
1,000,000,000,000,000<FLOP> / 500,000<POUNDS>=2,000,000,000 or 2 billion per pound.... that sounds high but i checked it twice and believe it's accurate :)
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My next question is "what"? So its that a twin-screw or roots blower?
How much boost?;)
 
mauiSRT/10 said:
Is this the official Nerd thread? LOL

Petaflop...........new word most folks have never heard of!

patrick
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the size of data uses the same vonacular (see chart below)
back in 1982 the C64 (Commodore 64) it had 64 kilobytes of RAM

64 kilobytes of RAM this computer has 80 terabytes of RAM
so that's
64 kilobytes (C64)
85,899,345,920 kilobytes (85 billion Kilobytes)

Chart:
bit
byte
kilobyte
megabyte
gigabyte
Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte
Zettabyte
 
BurntRubber said:
My next question is "what"? So its that a twin-screw or roots blower?
How much boost?;)
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:p it's probably got a lotta little blowers on it... atleast one per CPU... so right around 7,000 :p even if all the cpu's had heat sinks there still would be fans for ventalation....

to put things further in perspective...
the largest commercial UNIX server SUN Microsystems sells is 72 processors (the E25,000)
the largest commercial UNIX server IBM makes goes up to 64 processors (the IBM p5 595)

so unless you work for JPL/Nasa/Space & Defense/or the military, your IT department hasn't touched anything even close to this....
 
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what about gpu??
if it dont plays games with good fps i dont care. :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:
 
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