Monday, July 25, 2005
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Move over Teraflops (1,000,000,000,000 flops), Petaflops is here:D:D. In the computer world, the word flops refers to FLoating point Operations Per Second, which is used as a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating point calculations. Currently, United States has the fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene/L), that runs at 136.8 teraflops. However, soon Japan might have the fastest one! According to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry of Japan, the planned supercomputer will operate at a maximum speed of 10 petaflops (10,000 teraflops!!).

Blue Gene/L Supercomputer (Courtesy: ITNews)
The total amount for the project is likely to reach $716 million to $895 million by the time the project is completed in 2010, if all goes as planned.
Such high-speed computers are necessary for simulating experiments that are difficult to conduct or take too much time in real life. Researchers hope to use the computer to develop new drugs, to simulate the formation of galaxies and to predict the paths of typhoons and intense rainfall.
The Japanese supercomputer held the title of world's fastest until last September but as of June it had fallen to fourth place. USA is also planning a petaflop computer by 2010:):).

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6 Comments:

At July 27, 2005 5:26 AM, Blogger abnegator said...
Whatever we do..there will always be many things that we cannot.and however much we try to control things in this world..they will only go farther out of reach.

These japanese..i dont know where they are gonna stop...they simple puzzle the rest of the world with their little somethings..:)
 
At July 27, 2005 6:31 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Abnegator: There will always be things that are a little beyond our grasp. That is part of life, and that is part of what makes life exciting :).

Lunatic: Thanks:). India/USA means: I am from India, and am currently living in USA:).
 
At July 27, 2005 2:51 PM, Blogger Tabula_Rasa said...
Quite an informative post
 
At July 27, 2005 3:00 PM, Blogger Sray said...
Atheist: LOL :)... does Tera-Flops have anything to do with the Earth (Terra) then? ;)...

Nomadic: Thanks for visiting :)... do visit again!
 
At August 02, 2005 12:30 PM, Blogger Saravana said...
Will I be able to play half-life in this computer :P
 
At August 02, 2005 12:31 PM, Blogger Saravana said...
I know it will not be long before the Japanese will put this computer in a game console.
 

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