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Petaflop = Top500 table stakes by 2016

InsideHPC's Rich Brueckner and I sat down yesterday with Jack Dongarra and Hans Meuer from Top500.org, the guys who put together the twice yearly list of the 500 largest supercomputers. The resulting webcast revealed a number of interesting tidbits – and a shocking prediction. Let’s start with an interesting tidbit: While the …

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Headmaster

Factoids?

It doesn't mean what I think you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

If you think it means a little fact, that's a factoid!

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Unhappy

Wonder how many of these computers will be mainly devoted

to devising and testing new methods for killing people ?...

Henri

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