[ExI] petaflop computers

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 03:58:24 UTC 2008


2008/11/20 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
>
> They keep calling it a petaflop barrier, but I know of no barrier.  Still,
> it's cool that it was exceeded:
>
> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/supercomputers.html
>
> spike

Here is a similar situation explained, the recent terrible reporting
re: the LHC. It should shed some light on what the significance of
this milestone is.

http://layscience.net/node/277

ie: none at all

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