Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 15:28:34 11/02/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 18:02:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Yes, for very specific optimization with very specific SIMD instructions : http://www.apple.com/powermac/dualcore.html But more seriously, they give 21 Gigaflops for the Linpack benchmark.
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