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Exaflop? Cool.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:52:34 -0800
________________________________________ From: Randall [rvh40 () insightbb com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:35 PM To: David Farber; Dewayne Hendricks; johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com Subject: Exaflop? Cool. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/one-million-trillion-flops-second- targeted-new-institute-15534.html One million trillion ‘flops’ per second targeted by new institute Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories. An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers —the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia — currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second. Exaflop computers would perform a million trillion calculations per second. The idea behind the institute —under consideration for a year and a half prior to its opening — is “to close critical gaps between theoretical peak performance and actual performance on current supercomputers,” says Sandia project lead Sudip Dosanjh. “We believe this can be done by developing novel and innovative computer architectures.” Ultrafast supercomputers improve detection of real-world conditions by helping researchers more closely examine the interactions of larger numbers of particles over time periods divided into smaller segments. <snip> ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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