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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. 2 Pflop BARRIER? How is this a BARRIER, kdawson? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    kdawson,

    Answer me this. How is 2Pflops a barrier? It looks as though someone didn't bother sitting down and thinking that to say that this is a barrier would imply that there is some sort of natural construct making exactly 2Pflops a strange obstacle, and for instance, 4Pflops wouldn't be hard to hit.

    kdawson,

    I know that you're dying and all, but if you're smoking this much pot (which you must be to have such retarded headlines and submissions--sorry, but it's true), you really need to quit Slashot.

  2. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even as a Ubuntu newbie I was able to figure out from Googling how to get flash to work how to run things. Maybe you're just retarded.