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BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier

Posted by kdawson on from the faster-faster-for-science dept.

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)."

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  1. Finally! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Finally! by basementman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Finally! by ijakings · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you mean OSX with smug set to maximum.

  2. Missed opportunity by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

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