Top 500
The ranking of the 500 fastest supercomputers was released a few days ago. It was a fairly average list, with over all FLOPS increasing by 31% over 6 months, compared to the average 36%. There were a little over 160 new computers on the list.
The biggest news is that the top computer is now Titan, which can calculate 17.6 PetaFLOPS. Unfortunately, the speed for standard computers is not measured in FLOPS, which makes it difficult to conceptualize what this means. Looking up estimates for my computer, a laptop from 2008, I got anywhere between 30 and 160 GigaFLOPS. So it would take between 110,000 and 600,000 laptops just like mine to match Titan. That said, my laptop would have been one of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the early 1990's.
No comments:
Post a Comment