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LAZY_TERAFLOP I was reading this article and I have no Idea what a traflop is. Please help me. Put it into terms I can understand please. |
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a trillion floating point operations a second. |
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10 to the 12th power floating point operations per second (trillions). |
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headline story |
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Floating point operations are what the big boys use to guage processor speed - none of this MHz/GHz business! ;-) The fastest computer in the world has a speed of over 36TFlops (don't quote me on that). The number of Flops is determined through the LINPAK test, quite cleverly devised by some mad computer scientist and you can find an online, Java based version of the test to benchmark your PC's speed. |
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Is a floating point a 3d vector point, in that a cube would have 8? |
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Linpack - is the correct spelling. Read more about it all here: http://www.top500.org |
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no |
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A type of literal value that represents a number including a fractional portion (that is, the portion after a decimal place). |
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A floating point operation is essentially just a simple calculation. it could be addition subtraction etc. the floating point refers to the decimal point which shifts depending on requirement and limitations. Blue Gene which is planned to have a 360Tflops peak performance with the possibility of expansion to a petaflop which would be unbeleivable. |
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oh and linpak is rubbish. its as much use as using the clock speed of a processor as the measure of performance. |
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