Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:02:59 11/02/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 16:23:36, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 02, 2005 at 16:19:03, John Dillard wrote: > >>On November 02, 2005 at 15:34:30, Joshua Shriver wrote: >> >>>http://www.apple.com/powermac/ >>> >>>nice :) would make a good quad system. >>> >>>-Josh >> >> >>They're making a quad system. There's not other system on the market today, >>super computer or otherwise, that can process as many gigaflops of info as the >>dual core G5. I just wonder if any of the chess programs will benefit from this >>power? > >I know really nothing about computers super or otherwise but I suspect that 76 >Gigaflops on the quad core is not faster than the fastest supercomputer of >today. >Jim I'm not even convinced that 76 gigaflops is doable on any microcomputer today... Seems like a _BBBIIIIIGGGGGGG_ stretch... basically one floating point operation every 13 picoseconds or so...
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