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TeraGrid Gets an Upgrade
The Fun Guy writes to tell us The NSF has awarded $48 million to the University of Chicago to operate and expand TeraGrid over the next five years. TeraGrid is 'a national-scale system of interconnected computers that scientists and engineers are using to solve some of their most challenging problems. TeraGrid is the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system. Only the U.S. Department of Energy's weapons laboratories have larger systems, which are dedicated to classified research.' Currently, the TeraGrid's power is just over 60 teraflops.
...stack against the likes of distributed.net and other similar projects for processing power?
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but only if it comes in white....
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...Windows Vista!!
Had to say it, sorry!
please excuse my apathy
Just incase you weren't joking.
Microsoft can say they get x amount of tflops, and lets pretend for a moment that theoretically they are telling the truth. In reality, things *never* get to their potentials because of bottlenecks, unless of course your building super computers and have millions to invest. Microsoft and Sony can play the TFlops game, but in the end they aren't that powerful (as ArsTechnica has reported based on developer comments, they are much closer to 2-3 times the current generation in power)
I know you were probably joking, but you were modded insigtful and I couldn't help myself.
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* 9.6 billion dot product operations per second
9.6GFLOPS*60=576GFLOPS. That's not even remotely close to 1TFLOPS, let alone 60 TFLOPS. You're off by 2 orders of magnitude.
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