Exeter's new super computer
-
I have to say quadrillion isn't a word I use often. But I can deduce from Wikipedia that we are therefore a 'long scale country' (quite right, unlike those small scale folk across the pond). Which reminds me of billion, which is universally 1,000,000,000 these days, whereas the proper British billion in my childhood was 1,000,000,000,000. So maybe we're short after all. Confusing stuff. I was only looking for the headline number of ops/sec, and it would appear the BBC are having difficulty reporting this correctly.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
Nor I - hence the quick Google to see what it was!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29789208[^] "At that point, its processing power will be 16 teraflops - meaning it can perform 16 quadrillion calculations every second." Does this make sense to anyone?
Regards, Rob Philpott.
-
I have to say quadrillion isn't a word I use often. But I can deduce from Wikipedia that we are therefore a 'long scale country' (quite right, unlike those small scale folk across the pond). Which reminds me of billion, which is universally 1,000,000,000 these days, whereas the proper British billion in my childhood was 1,000,000,000,000. So maybe we're short after all. Confusing stuff. I was only looking for the headline number of ops/sec, and it would appear the BBC are having difficulty reporting this correctly.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
I've found it's safer to use the correct word (milliard) when talking about US billions. A few people might have to look it up the first time they see it, but it completely avoids any possible confusion.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
I thought the met-office recently (within the last couple of years) just got a new super-computer.......:confused:
Dave Find Me On:Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn Folding Stats: Team CodeProject
Yes but this is a new super-super-computer! (And I suspect it doesn't come with Windows 8 preinstalled)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
-
I've found it's safer to use the correct word (milliard) when talking about US billions. A few people might have to look it up the first time they see it, but it completely avoids any possible confusion.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
it completely avoids any possible confusion.
Not too sure about that: I confused it with Mallard, and just bought a lot of ducks...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
-
Mark_Wallace wrote:
it completely avoids any possible confusion.
Not too sure about that: I confused it with Mallard, and just bought a lot of ducks...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Punchline of the Day "And if they've got any ducks, buy a mallard."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
I thought the met-office recently (within the last couple of years) just got a new super-computer.......:confused:
Dave Find Me On:Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn Folding Stats: Team CodeProject
DaveAuld wrote:
I thought the met-office recently (within the last couple of years) just got a new super-computer
Yes, it should be working by Thursday afternoon. Or it might be Friday morning or next Sunday night. It did work for a while yesterday, which was a bit unexpected.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
I think there is something wrong with that article... Supercomputers with around half a million cores have about 5000! Tflop/s not 16! http://www.top500.org/lists/2014/06/[^]
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V) תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
Sweet, I saw stampede about 6 months ago at a wordpress conference of all things. I had no idea it was number 7 in the world.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
-
Journalists that think they understand numbers... :sigh: 16 quadrillion in the UK is 16E24 (thanks Google!)
16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Which would be 16 YottaFlops. 16 TeraFlops wouuld be
16,000,000,000,000
But this is journalism, so zeros don't mean anything, do they! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29789208[^] "At that point, its processing power will be 16 teraflops - meaning it can perform 16 quadrillion calculations every second." Does this make sense to anyone?
Regards, Rob Philpott.
Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
I'd rather be phishing!
-
Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
I'd rather be phishing!
How about a nice game of chess?
-
I have to say quadrillion isn't a word I use often. But I can deduce from Wikipedia that we are therefore a 'long scale country' (quite right, unlike those small scale folk across the pond). Which reminds me of billion, which is universally 1,000,000,000 these days, whereas the proper British billion in my childhood was 1,000,000,000,000. So maybe we're short after all. Confusing stuff. I was only looking for the headline number of ops/sec, and it would appear the BBC are having difficulty reporting this correctly.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
-
Mark_Wallace wrote:
it completely avoids any possible confusion.
Not too sure about that: I confused it with Mallard, and just bought a lot of ducks...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Ever the quack! ;P
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
