On 10/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dirk Bruere</b> <<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, 10 PFLOP machines are on the boards for implementation by 2011.<br>
That, IMO, is Human Level processing power.</blockquote><div><br>
Not for running an upload it's not, 1E18 flops is a conservative
estimate for that (and that's just raw crunch, leaving aside the
question of what memory latency and bandwidth would be required).<br>
<br>
If by "human level" you mean "match human performance by any means,
using algorithms optimal for the hardware", well, 1E16 flops might
perhaps be enough for that, but that's a different topic from uploading
(and I don't expect to have such algorithms by 2011, or soon
thereafter).<br>
<br>
- Russell<br>
</div></div>