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Subject: Re: A really fast computer

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:57:50 09/03/00

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On September 03, 2000 at 12:44:13, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>It's a seven year old gray cray.....
>A flop is a floating point operation per second, a gigaflop is 1.000.000.000 of
>them in a second.
>Your numeric co-processor does that stuf, it comes in very handy with say
>graphical calculations. Your games will love it.
>However my two years old PII@450 does half a gigaflop as well. And that's just
>an ordinary PC...
>
>Jeroen ;-}


Your PII/450 couldn't do 1/2 gigaflop if you bought ten of 'em and ran 'em all
in parallel.  The PC can sustain about 100mbytes/second of memory throughput.
That is 25 million 32 bit floating numbers.  How are you going to get 1/2
gigaflop???

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