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Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Rictor on October 29, 2005, 02:18:43 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4386404.stm
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Ace on October 29, 2005, 02:43:00 am
Wake me up when we have super quantum computer arrays. :p
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Nuke on October 29, 2005, 08:30:17 am
tell me how does one determine how many terraflops your machine does? im just curious how this comairs to my hardware.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Fury on October 29, 2005, 08:42:37 am
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Originally posted by Nuke
tell me how does one determine how many terraflops your machine does? im just curious how this comairs to my hardware.

Little googleing turned out this. (http://www.answers.com/topic/flops)

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A cheap but modern desktop computer using, for example, a Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 CPU, typically runs at a clock frequency in excess of 2 GHz and provides computational performance in the range of a few GFLOPS.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: T-Man on October 29, 2005, 01:30:13 pm
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It reached 280.6 teraflops - that is 280.6 trillion calculations a second.


Hmm... he'd be good at chess... :lol:

I wonder how FSOpen would run on it...

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Purple can do 100 teraflops while it carries out simulations of nuclear weapons performance.


Can anyone say, Wargames? :lol:
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: redsniper on October 29, 2005, 02:49:25 pm
I was thining the same thing about FSO. It could probably run the new version of Bearbaiting (with the ship-create bug) without any slowdown. [/understatement]
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Ashrak on October 29, 2005, 03:03:44 pm
actually ... i doubt it would be very good at chess ... without a very good program ... and i doubt even more it could run FS open ;)
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Deepblue on October 29, 2005, 03:29:57 pm
It needs a GPU to run FSO.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Roanoke on October 29, 2005, 03:33:03 pm
[Papa Lazerou]Hello Dave ?![/Papa Lazerou]
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Nuke on October 29, 2005, 03:36:16 pm
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury

Little googleing turned out this. (http://www.answers.com/topic/flops)

 


its pretty much impossible to convert ghz directly to flops. i know that my processor has about 3 floting point units in its core,, being a 64 bit processor, id asume its actually doing 2 32 bit operations per unit. however not every cycle will fill out all the core units to 100%. so its kinda sketchy what my machines mathematical capabilities are. i was more or less wondering if there was a utility that would give me an aproxamate estimation as to what kind of performance im really getting.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Descenterace on October 30, 2005, 03:23:35 am
Isn't 'a few GFlops' vague enough for you?

It'll probably vary between 1 and 3, depending on the task.

Graphics cards can typically achieve between 20 and 60 GFlops.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Nuke on October 30, 2005, 10:27:46 am
i dont like vauge numbers. i cant really be running any less than 2.2, the speed of my processor. im pretty sure its running at least one calculation a cycle even though it can handel one or two calculations per each of the 3 floating point units in my athlon 64 3500+.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 30, 2005, 11:57:35 am
Athlon 64s pull off a few IPCs, which is why their speeds are faster than an identically clocked PIV.
Title: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Post by: Stealth on October 30, 2005, 10:31:54 pm
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Originally posted by Nuke
tell me how does one determine how many terraflops your machine does? im just curious how this comairs to my hardware.


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Each person in the world with a handheld calculator would still take decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second.