The machine is supposed to be designed to give a sustained performance of 1 Pflops. The chart in the link you provided above shows peak performance. Most very efficient algorithms use roughly 20-40% of peak performance of a machine, a problem that is enhanced when one goes to large parallel systems. So the machine will have to have a peak performance that is much greater than the sustained in order to achieve this.
The "Blue River" machine is the IBM system that was referred to in the previous submission. Generally, the universities pick vendors to work with, for building a machine of this size and capability is well beyond the capability of any university. Last year, the University of Texas, Austin won a machine working with the vendor Sun.
I just bought a Panasonic HDTV monitor (sans HDTV converter) and got up this morning and put in the Matrix. Even with my crappy DVD player, it looked beautiful. I couldn't go back to my other TV if I wanted.
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The machine is supposed to be designed to give a sustained performance of 1 Pflops. The chart in the link you provided above shows peak performance. Most very efficient algorithms use roughly 20-40% of peak performance of a machine, a problem that is enhanced when one goes to large parallel systems. So the machine will have to have a peak performance that is much greater than the sustained in order to achieve this.
The "Blue River" machine is the IBM system that was referred to in the previous submission. Generally, the universities pick vendors to work with, for building a machine of this size and capability is well beyond the capability of any university. Last year, the University of Texas, Austin won a machine working with the vendor Sun.
I just bought a Panasonic HDTV monitor (sans HDTV converter) and got up this morning and put in the Matrix. Even with my crappy DVD player, it looked beautiful. I couldn't go back to my other TV if I wanted.