Despite 25 teraflops of computing power, SetiAtHome has not yet spotted any little green men.
Blue Gene will speed along at 1, 000 teraflops and will also be used to attack biological problems.
BP's computer centre in the Gulf of Mexico operates at 270 teraflops (270 trillion calculations per second), nearly 3, 000 times faster than a decade ago.
They can manage four teraflops, equivalent to the world's biggest supercomputer.
That's a lot of new processor muscle, considering the TeraGrid already cranks out 60 teraflops of aggregated computing power per second, with three petabytes of rotating storage.
Two GPUs on one card, giving the power of 4 GPUs on a PC. 2GB dedicated frame buffer, 41 gigapixels per second throughput. 5.2 teraflops of computing power.
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.
The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two.
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As far as specs, he said it runs on x86 architecture, a "highly enhanced" PC GPU (with "almost 2 teraflops of performance, " he added), an unknown amount of local HDD storage, and 8GB of GDDR5 system memory.
IBM, ever the salesman, has thrown gobs of its fancy server hardware at the project, with 10 racks full of IBM Power 750 servers, stuffed with 15 terabytes of RAM and 2, 880 processor operating at a collective 80 teraflops.
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Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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