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Wasnt the PS3 touted as being capable of 1 teraFLOPS (FLOPS being FLoating Operations Per Second, though FLOPs per second is still correct)? So this thing is as powerful as 60 PS3s? Not really that impressive.
As a comparison, GIMPS (the internet mersenne prime search) sustains 27 teraFLOPS, SETI@home gets 528 TFLOPS, Folding@home gets 8 petaFLOPS (8000 TFLOPS). As far as we know none of these are self aware, though since one is responsible for looking at aliens, and one is steadily learning most of out biology, they may just be biding their time.
Even in terms of single computers, not that impressive, the latest ATI graphics cards are capable of 2.4 teraFLOPS, and supercomputers have supassed 1 petaFLOP.
In fact, were skynet a single computer, 60 TFLOPS would put it about 42nd in the world, behind many of the other computers owned by the military
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Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:55,
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I wonder what it's doing to require 8 petaflops!?
Probably trying to work out if Michael Jackson is white or black.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 16:24,
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