As a part of my previous post for advanced AI, i will now do a topic on super computers, these computers are at the top end of computing technology, desktop computers stand aside please.
To show you the power of a super computer, lets do a demostration on both of their speed.
According to wiki, the fastest PC processor (quad-core) perform over 37 GFLOPS (Intel QX9775)
that is over 37 billion Floating Point operation per second. Fast aint it?
But what about super computers?
The fastest super computer now is the Blue Gene. It processing speed is at a whopping 500 TFLOPS. Thats about 500 Trillion FLOPS.
Lets do some fun calculations
500 * 10^12 / 37 * 10 ^9 = 500000000000000/37000000000 = 13513.5135.....
Logically you need 13513 fastest quadcore to to produce the same amout of processing power that is processed by the Blue Gene in one second. Or another example if a supercomputer process a data in 1 hour, your quadcore will need 13513 hours to complete :)
We are still growing in speed doubling every 1.2 years and when we reach Quintillion speed we are can start to produce techology to simulate organic cells.
IF you want to think fast, think supercomputer fast :P
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