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Subject: Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record

Author: Michael Williams

Date: 23:20:45 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 21:46:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 18, 2002 at 16:33:55, Martin Andersen wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2002 at 16:10:02, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>>
>>>A Japanese machine records the fastest "floating point" calculation
>>>speed - over 35 trillion calculations per second. This is five times
>>>faster than the previous record holder, IBM's ASCI White system.
>>>
>>>http://www.processrequest.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbddafaeBG
>>
>>I'm no expert, but I don't think chess programs use floating
>>point calculations.
>>
>>Martin
>
>
>Only because on PC machines, integer math is faster.  If FP was faster,
>we'd all be using that.  On some machines, it is faster..

Would you be so kind as to elaborate on this (fp)?
I'd really appreciate it, and I'm also pretty ignorant on such matters.
Thanks in advance.

• Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record Robert Hyatt 13:09:01 04/19/02
  • Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record J. Wesley Cleveland 15:19:34 04/19/02
    • Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record Robert Hyatt 20:13:09 04/19/02
• Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record Vincent Diepeveen 08:24:53 04/19/02
  • Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record Miguel A. Ballicora 09:05:39 04/19/02
    • Re: Supercomputer smashes world speed record Vincent Diepeveen 03:22:52 04/20/02

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