31 Mar
2013
31 Mar
'13
5:10 p.m.
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:00:06 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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Subject: Re: [windows-1252] World~Rs top supercomputer from ~Q09 is now
obsolete, will be dismantled
On 03/31/2013 07:52 PM, Dave Land wrote:
With a supercomputer from four years ago? Uh, no.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Looks like using the GPU in the latest IPAD at full blast will give you ~77
GFlops (but no way high bandwidth way to connect) so about 13,158 ipads to
equal the decommissioned ~1 PF machine in bare CPU horsepower
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
It's probably my age, but I just can't get excited about the massive
multiprocessor boxes.
LOL, yeah, now they can probably do the same work with 2 iPads and a couple
of 100tb. NAS arrays