IBM and the Petaflop
One trillion operations per second are produced by this/these machines. It has 4 850MhZ chips and ~294,912 processors and stands six feet tall.
What is the peak potential for the computer world? More processing performance could be achieved by forming a Beowulf cluster of two [or more] of these monsters together, with a certain level of system synergy until the synergy wore off. However, this should be in the order of dozens of trillions of operations per second, if not more.
While Blue Gene/P is already autosynergous, it does not parse its operations to potential other itselves. If a computer is an MC Escher [boundaries periodically defined] of processing power, it will have a new level of performance. What is *this* peak, the theoretical non-size limited performance threshhold? Playing to this piper will produce greater performance enhancement than playing to the single-unit performance system.
Can we produce a giant terramonster from participating computers on the internet to rival our best supercomputers? Ala Folding@Home?
What is the peak potential for the computer world? More processing performance could be achieved by forming a Beowulf cluster of two [or more] of these monsters together, with a certain level of system synergy until the synergy wore off. However, this should be in the order of dozens of trillions of operations per second, if not more.
While Blue Gene/P is already autosynergous, it does not parse its operations to potential other itselves. If a computer is an MC Escher [boundaries periodically defined] of processing power, it will have a new level of performance. What is *this* peak, the theoretical non-size limited performance threshhold? Playing to this piper will produce greater performance enhancement than playing to the single-unit performance system.
Can we produce a giant terramonster from participating computers on the internet to rival our best supercomputers? Ala Folding@Home?
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