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06/09/2008 10:34:43 PM · #1 |
Worlds Fastest Computer reaches a "petaflop" (One petaflop is 1,000 trillion operations per second).
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06/09/2008 10:43:40 PM · #2 |
'Or, if each of the world's 6 billion people worked on hand-held computers for 24 hours a day, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.'
Unbelievable.
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06/10/2008 12:38:52 AM · #3 |
I have a calculator that will do that. I made it for the science fair in 5th grade.
LOL
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06/10/2008 12:49:35 AM · #4 |
That's very impressive, but the computer on the Voyager 1 spacecraft is actually the fastest computer. It's moving at about 39,000 mph. :)
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06/10/2008 01:41:34 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Mick:
That's very impressive, but the computer on the Voyager 1 spacecraft is actually the fastest computer. It's moving at about 39,000 mph. :) |
Hmmm. I'm calculating that the Earth moves about 67,000 mph around the sun, which would make my computer faster than Voyager by a good amount. :) And at night, it's moving even faster, when you add rotation speed to the revolution speed.
Message edited by author 2008-06-10 01:41:49.
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06/10/2008 02:20:29 AM · #6 |
| oops, I wandered into the nerd room again. ;-) |
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06/10/2008 02:24:29 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
oops, I wandered into the nerd room again. ;-) |
nah they don't know speed! my old computer was so fast it even had a turbo button! then BAM 166 mhz processor baby.
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06/10/2008 02:29:06 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
oops, I wandered into the nerd room again. ;-) |
If the earths rotation at night is added to the earths rotation around the sun, would that explain why nights go by so fast. As durning the daytime the earth rotation is opposite the earths rotation around the Sun, making the days seem longer. Hmmmmm!!
With that theory the arc from sunset to sunrise should be shorter than the arc of sunrise to sunset. Humm!!
Now I know why I sit up at night and sleep during the day, I get more sleep :)
What do I know - I don't even know if 2+2=4 right now...
Message edited by author 2008-06-10 02:31:51. |
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06/10/2008 05:21:48 AM · #9 |
What is this "sleep" of which you speak??
Back on topic: I can't wait til they come out with the laptop version! |
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06/10/2008 09:16:32 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
What is this "sleep" of which you speak??
Back on topic: I can't wait til they come out with the laptop version! |
You can be sure that when the laptop version comes out, the software that runs on it will be so much more bloated that it will still run slowly.
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06/10/2008 10:18:31 AM · #11 |
| Made with souped-up PS3 chips. Cool! I wonder how Burnout Paradise plays on that? :-) |
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06/10/2008 10:44:05 AM · #12 |
"The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory."
Might be a while for that laptop...
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06/10/2008 10:55:01 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
"The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory."
Might be a while for that laptop... |
or you'll need a bigger lap
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06/10/2008 10:58:05 AM · #14 |
I saw an actual screen shot. It looks like they are using it for some sort of military application:
here is the screen shot.
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