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kcasper
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Does BOINC or WCG track the stats to compare how they compare to supercomputers? Just curious as Folding@home does and the active computers on that project are doing better than the combined results of the world's six fastest supercomputers. It would be nice to be able to compare the projects.
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605445/folding...werful-supercomputer.html |
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Sekerob
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No, but we meander regularly now in the 260-280 Teraflop range, with high precision computing.
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twilyth
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Since virtually all supercomputers are multiprocessor machines, it's sort of relative.
----------------------------------------The same processors that are in a Cray can be purchased by the average person. The only difference is the architecture which ties them all together. But the actual chips are AMD or Intel server chips. So you can pretty much take the flops for a given chip and then multiply that by as many chips as you can afford.   |
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