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Former Member
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If you don't wish to have a Sig, you divide your ppd by 700. This will give you a rough estimate of your gflops per day. Don't know if this holds true since server changed points system though. But it should give you an idea.
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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All the question is not if but when the 1 PFlops will be reached. We need an additional 400 GFlops. Here is my guess. Q4 2013.  This was my post in December 2011. If we look at the recent numbers then the 1PFlop or 1000 TFlop milestone could be reached by next winter say Q1 2013. This is my new bet.   |
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SNURK
Veteran Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Post Count: 1217 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Ask snurk to make you a signature. Just make a request in his forum. No need, he already did some time ago.  Here it is:  So there's your GFlops kffitzgerald.  |
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kffitzgerald
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Hey Thank You Snurk, now what do I do with this? lol
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RicktheBrick
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This was my post in December 2011. If we look at the recent numbers then the 1PFlop or 1000 TFlop milestone could be reached by next winter say Q1 2013. This is my new bet.
By that time the fastest supercomputer will be 20,000 TFlop. Here is an interesting article on what IBM is doing with the watson computer. http://www.cio.com/article/704436/Can_Watson_IBM_s_Supercomputer_Cure_Cancer_. Here is another article about quantum computing http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/qubits-and-piece...es-qubit-record-10026044/. I wonder how many seconds that one would require to duplicate all the results that wcg has accomplished? |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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very interesting NIST experiment. It seems that such a quantum computer with qubits in the hundreds will have a computing power 80 or more orders of magnitude more than the most powerful computer today. And if we say 350 qubits in this experiment (at the moment it is a physical simulator and not a computer) nothing prevents to go to thousands qubits. It is simply mind boggling in the sense that we simply cannot understand what such a computing power would just mean. It is like doing all the calculations done by all the computers built on this earth since their first existence and up to today and all in less than an atto-second. And in reality it is way faster than that but I have simply no more words for describing this.
----------------------------------------The challenge will be to come up with the right problems. The other challenge will be on how to present the problem to such a quantum computer and then extract the results in a meaningful way for us. Still a lot, lot to do, but the way is open and the direction is set. The future of computing will be marvelous. Hope just that I will live long enough to see such a computer in regular operation. |
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Movieman
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If you don't wish to have a Sig, you divide your ppd by 700. This will give you a rough estimate of your gflops per day. Don't know if this holds true since server changed points system though. But it should give you an idea. Is this true? So if I have a machine that does 140,000WCG PPD it's at 200gflops?  |
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Former Member
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Ballpark
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Former Member
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Not updated the chart for a while... it's on hold [knreed is studying the "dynamics" of the new server 700 credit system], but we had a short burst period of nearly 1 Petaflop a little while ago, strictly computed from points granted. We're now in full summer swing, so we'll be in slower mode till September. See http://bit.ly/WCGWK1 for how that works.
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SNURK
Veteran Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Post Count: 1217 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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GPU-mania is surely heating things up Flopswise.
----------------------------------------1000 TeraFlops (or 1 PetaFlops) is just around the corner! |
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