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IP: more on The power of the people! (Humorous)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:30:48 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: John Lyon <jelyon () jelyon com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:03:26 -0500 To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: IP: The power of the people! (Humorous)
From further down in the article (see last sentence)
You have become a node in an amorphous supercomputer that, by some measures, matches the world's most powerful. Among computers inside a single building, the honor now goes to one recently installed at the Japanese government's Earth Simulator Research and Development Center in Yokohama, for climate prediction and other problems. Occupying a space the size of four basketball courts, it is rated at 35.6 teraflops, meaning that it can do 35.6 trillion calculations (gloating point operations, or flops) a second.
I like it. Gloating Point Operations. Perhaps the US can take back the lead in "glops" with appropriate government focus and funding? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/science/physical/23COMP.html?ex=1021312924 &ei=1&en=3bee2cbe1972e909 -- John Lyon :: http://jelyon.com Random Abstracts :: JELyon's Rampage Powered by Blogger Pro :: http://pro.blogger.com ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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