16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
1:02 p.m.
On 15 Apr 2008, at 23:04, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I don't know. One PC? It would be a very large
PC. Pushing the
boundaries of what a PC is.
Peace... Sridhar
I don't know Sridhar, PC's are pretty fruity these days.
I know it's like comparing apples and oranges, but Deep Blue sans
specialist chess hardware was rated at 11.38 Gigaflops (Linpack?
Double precision floating point? Only Wikipedia knows.....) My 8 core
MacPro downstairs allegedly churns through 81 GFlops/cpu in Linpack
"Dense Floating Point Operations". A figure often bandied about
regarding double precision floating point Linpack score on the Sony
Playstation 3 is 24 GFlops.
-Austin.