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China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer

Posted by samzenpus on from the king-of-the-hill dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China's Tianhe-2 is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the latest semiannual Top 500 list of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world. Developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, the system appeared two years ahead of schedule and will be deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho, China, before the end of the year."

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  1. Re:Clueless by Entropius · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a computational physicist:

    "flop" is sometimes used to mean "floating point operation", when you're talking about the compute cost of an algorithm. For instance:

    "The Wilson dslash operation requires 1,320 flops per site" or "The comm/compute balance of this operation is 3.2 bytes per flop".

    So saying "ten flops per second" is fine -- "flops" is the plural of "flop".

    Yes, "flops" is also acronymized as "... per second", and while that's the most common use it's not exclusive.