[extropy-chat] 70 teraflops

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:45:04PM -0800, Hara Ra wrote:
> By Moore's Law:
> 
> Current Desktop, 3 Gflops
> Ratio 70000/3 = 23.3x10^4
> Moore's law is about 10^2 per decade, so about 22 years.

Moore's law doesn't apply to computer performance. Only integration density. 

http://www.theregister.com/2004/11/29/ibm_sony_cell_debut/
mentiones vaporware specs, which is even more meaningless than theoretical
peak. It's going to be very hard to achieve anything spectacular with
hardware-agnostic codes.

Of course, they promised a PC with PS2 before.

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