With the ability to do those complex nuclear weapons modeling on those PS3 cell arrays I think they need to develop a highly realistic video war game exclusively for Roadrunner and sell system idle time as gaminig minutes to the public. The machine would probably pay for itself in six months. What kid wouldn't want to test his skill against the world's fastest computer?
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Go IBM! I remember Big Blue...
Watt? Or watt-hour
"376 million calculations per watt" makes no sense. Can you clarify? Is this per watt-hour?
Ummm
Let us see, it is quite simple. A watt is a unit of energy. So for every watt that the computer consumes, it performs 376 million calculations. There is no need to throw in other units of measurement like time.
Watts are not energy !
Watts are not energy, they are power. Power is energy (measured in Joules) per unit time. Specifically, a watt is a Joule per second.
The confusion here is that the calculations, usually listed as GigaFLOPS is Billion Floating Point Operations per Second. So the real metric, the seconds dropping out, is Operations per Joule.
-Jay
Nope
Watts are not units of energy. This is why on your electric bill you get billed for kilowatt hours not kilowatts.
-- Same Anonymous that asked the original question.
Desktops
Well I for one won't be buying a computer for a year or two. There is no telling what advancements in end-user hardware architecture will be eventually gleaned from this whole project. As such future "hybridized" systems will most likely render current day computers completely obsolete. If this project were only in a theoretical stage, then I'd feel alright about it. But a year or two of practical use of this iteration of "Deep Thought" and before you know it we'll all be buying iphones more powerful than 4 of IBM's blade servers combined for about 50 bucks.
I suspect it's going to mean 376 million calculations per second
I suspect it's going to mean 376 million calculations per second per watt, which does make sense.
But...
Will it run Vista?
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