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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
So WCG = 700,000 points = 100,000 BOINC credits = 1 TFL . So if a 1Gflop machine produces 1400 WCG points a day then say if I am producing on average 50,000 WCG points a day from all my machines that is the equivalent output of a single 35GFLOP computer right? Am I wrong?
Now is that the equivalent that a 35GFLOP machine could do in a day or just in a second? Now I'm confused at what this means too. When the WCG total is said to be at around 500 TFLOPS does that mean the sum total of all that was computed could be done by a 500TFLOP supercomputer in a single day, a single hour, single second? Or does that mean the WCG project is on average computing the same amount as a 500TFLOP computer does in a day? So basically does that 500TFLOP number (same with my 35GFLOP avg output) is it the sum total of all computations done that could be computed with an equivalent supercomputer at that speed per second OR just that the project is producing the same amount of computations each day as an equivalent supercomputer at that speed? I don't know how else to explain my confusion, sorry if I'm not making sense. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
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SNURK
Veteran Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Post Count: 1217 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think you are confusing FLOP and FLOPS.
----------------------------------------FLOPS means Floating point Operarions per Second. So a 500 TFLOPS machine does 500 billion floating point operations per second. If someone sais 'a 500 TFLOP machine' you can assume they mean 500 TFLOPS. Hope this takes away some of the confusion . |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7849 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think you are confusing FLOP and FLOPS. FLOPS means Floating point Operarions per Second. So a 500 TFLOPS machine does 500 billion floating point operations per second. If someone sais 'a 500 TFLOP machine' you can assume they mean 500 TFLOPS. Hope this takes away some of the confusion .For us on the other side of the pond that would be 500 trillion floating point operations per second or 5*10^14. (European billion = U.S. trillion) Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Former Member
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(European billion = U.S. trillion) I thought I was able to keep up with this thread until this sentance right here.... Now I'm just thoroughly confused. |
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SNURK
Veteran Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Post Count: 1217 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Now I'm just thoroughly confused. It's true, and yet another source of confusion. Read all about it here. Look for the 'short scale' and 'long scale' column in the table. Good luck. ![]() |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7849 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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(European billion = U.S. trillion) I thought I was able to keep up with this thread until this sentance right here.... Now I'm just thoroughly confused. Sorry about the confusion, I was trying to be helpful. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
(European billion = U.S. trillion) I thought I was able to keep up with this thread until this sentance right here.... Now I'm just thoroughly confused. Sorry about the confusion, I was trying to be helpful. Cheers Snurk's link helped. It still kinda makes me want to bang my head on my desk, but in a different way. |
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