Petaflop

Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh look at a technological breakthrough that leads to a discussion on how many zeros are in those big numbers. We'll also show a web page that gives you even more zeros!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• petaflop
• mr.
• dowling
• business
• communications
• math

[eltranced]

how do you know how many flops are occurring during regular web browsing... do flops have any relation to context switches?

[ahampster2]

1,000,000,000,000= Teraflop

1,000,000,000,000,000 = Pentaflop

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,= Sextflop

...

still wont run Cyrsis on full >_<

[DKM101]

I'm sure that before I die (i'm a minor), we'll have petaflop handheld devices (currently only in the realm of supercomputers)

[JmsDrkx]

they just break the teraflop it will take provably 20 years from 15 years from now

[meskalin64]

try googelplex for zeroes

[soylentgreenb]

"I predict an Nvidia gaming card could do 1 petflops in around 5 to 6 years from now."

No; silicon technology doesn't have the legs to do that and it will take more than 5 to 6 years to commercialize graphene or optical computing or whatever will replace it.

[GenXFuturist101]

I think this has already happened, is happening & has been being performed with a FAR superior computing system.

I don't care though. Fear is for mortals :)

[77Truth]

I think there using it to create a profile on everybody through electronic communications.

[RifleMatthew]

ridiculous yet true...

[sonofhendrix]

I predict an Nvidia gaming card could do 1 petflops in around 5 to 6 years from now.