That is a measure of calculating speed ordinarily translated into a thousand trillion operations per second.
The Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops or thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
The process will involve building a Blue Gene supercomputer with 8, 000 processors that can roar along at 23 trillion operations per second.
That's a lot more calculations than the most powerful supercomputer in action today, which can do about 12 trillion operations per second.
The latest generation TI OMAP 4470 processor and Imagination SGX544 graphics engine capable of over 12 billion floating point operations per second.
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Once completed, the system will be able to perform 10 quadrillion operations per second, making it one of the fastest computers on the planet.
Studies funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency indicate that the brain performs 38, 000 trillion operations per second and has memory capacity equivalent to 3, 584 terabytes.
This half-build system achieved the world's best LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second), to place it at the head of the TOP500 list.
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The computer should be able to do at least 100 trillion operations per second (teraflops), which is about eight times faster than the fastest supercomputer around, IBM's ASCI White.
The result: a virtual supercomputer capable of crunching 6 trillion floating point operations per second, or 6 teraflops, equivalent to one of the ten most powerful computers in the world.
In the roughly 18 months following President Clinton's decision unilaterally to decontrol supercomputers capable of making 2, 000-7, 000 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPS), such devices have wound up in several ominous locales.
Smarr is forging fiber links among computers at Urbana-Champaign, San Diego, CalTech and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to form a "TeraGrid, " capable of performing 13.5 trillion operations per second, as powerful as 13, 000 desktop computers.
Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.
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Also significant, company officials said, is that the 12-way processor Sun Fire 4800 reached 60, 000 operations per second running the SpecJBB Java Application Tier, while the 24-way processor Sun Fire 6800 reached 109, 000 operations per second.
Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.
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