BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier

Myrrh writes "Though an official announcement has not yet been made, it would appear that the BOINC project as a whole has exceeded two petaflop/s performance. The top page features this legend: '24-hour average: 2,793.53 TeraFLOPS.' According to last month's Top500 list of supercomputers, BOINC's performance is now beating that of the fastest supercomputer, RoadRunner, by more than a factor of two (with the caveat that BOINC has not been benchmarked on Linpack)."

Comments

Finally!

[morgan_greywolf]

BOINC finally has enough computing power to handle Vista Ultimate and a few applications!

Re:Finally!

[basementman]

I think you meant Ubuntu with Firefox playing a flash video.

Re:Finally!

[ijakings]

I think you mean OSX with smug set to maximum.

Missed opportunity

[DoofusOfDeath]

We could make T-shirts saying "Computer scientists BOINC faster", but I not sure that sends the right message.

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu

[wjh31]

half a million computers, times a couple of hundred watts would gives ~10MW which is about 4 blue whales or 3 diesel locomotives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)#megawatt_.28106_watts.29

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu

[Red Flayer]

That's ridiculous, why would you use ~4 BW or ~3 DLs when you could use 1 POOT (Power Output Of Togo). BOINC uses about 1 POOT.

Surely we can reduce the inefficiency, and POOT less.

Why are we using a distributed system of energy-inefficient comPOOTers?

The big question is, how many cow farts would we need to harvest to produce one POOT of energy?