[ot]I am looking forward to seeing WCG achieving this number of FLOPS's [/ot]

I hope it will be much sooner, only if programmers find a way to write application which will better utilize our crunchers

For example, my low-end 7750 GPU's peak is 2.1 TFLOPS (according to BOINC Manager 7.0.42), its Single Precision computing power (according to AMD) is 819 GFLOPS. Despite this, its performances for WCG combined with 12 quite good CPU threads is only 378 GFLOPS Single Precision (according to SNURK). Based on my calculation, GPU alone performing with 85% of total, so GPU result is 321 GFLOPS. It is less than 40% vs. AMD entry.

I am guessing for your high-end GPU's it could be even lower percentage

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i have this note in my collection !!! impressive and useful only to buy a t shirt and a jean, in zimbabwe between january and march 2009

You're getting bogged down in the minutiae, it's the first part of the first sentence that's relevant "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, . . .shall not be questioned ". The rest is just talking about specific instances but not limiting the scope to those instances.

However you're right inasmuch as there is debate about whether or not that part of the amendment gives the president the power to issue new debt to avoid a default. That would most likely have to be litigated since there is, AFAIK, no precedent on the matter.

On the coin issue, it looks like both the treasury and fed have nixed the $1T coin idea - at least for now.

But both the prez and the baggers seem to be digging in. The prez says he won't allow the republicans to hold the full faith and credit of the US hostage in the budget talks.

The WSJ (Wall St Jrnl) said something like, you don't take a hostage (the debt ceiling) unless you're prepared to kill it - meaning in this case, that you're ready to force a default. And everything coming from B*n3r, I mean Boehner seems to indicate that he's ready to that.

Personally, I don't think Barry is prepared to end up looking like a fool this time around so I know that he has something up his sleeve as far as the budget negotiations go. If it's not the coin and it's not a 14th amendment end run though, I don't know what it might be, but I don't think he's the type to talk smack without having something to back it up. I guess we'll see.

The whole point here is that you don't hold the full faith and credit of the country hostage just so you can advance your position in budget talks. That's what this amounts to.

The pubs and baggers want to cut, cut, cut. That's fine. But when they wanted to cut taxes they weren't concerned about finding spending cuts to offset the tax cuts, were they? No. And that's the fundamental hypocrisy of their position.

If they want smaller govt, that's fine. Use the system the way it was designed and work within the system to try to achieve your goals. The debt ceiling was NEVER intended to be used as a bargaining chip and Barry is absolutely justified in saying that he won't negotiate on it. I fully hope that he stares Boehner down and does indeed force a default. Then let's see what they have to negotiate with.