New US Supercomputer

Dudley | 17:14 Sat 06th Nov 2004 | Technology

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The BBC websites states that 'The new US supercomputer Cray-1 is capable of 80 megaflops (80 million operations a second). The Blue Gene/L machine that will be completed next year will be five million times faster.

Surely they mean 5 time faster rather than 5 million times faster because that would be 3,200 million (or 3.2 billion) operations per second? Quite an uplift even by computing standards.

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Without seeing the original site, it is hard to be sure, but if you define a teraflop as 10 to the 12th power floating-point operations per second, then Blue Gene/L (which has been upgraded) is capable of 280Teraflops.

It is over 3 times faster then the next fastest machine on Earth.

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