Petaflop, motherfuckers

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Fairweather Pure
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Petaflop, motherfuckers

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/ ... aflops.php

How soon until I can get this is a laptop? 10 or 15 years?
To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.
Fuck NASA, fund more super computers!
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Re: Petaflop, motherfuckers

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I'm more interested in the Star Trek type holodeck (posted article on Bunch of crap thread as afterthought in same post as the German waterslide of death) which will take a few of these super computers to operate.
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