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2012-10-30 Science & Technology
New Supercomputer Could be World's Fastest
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Posted by Au Auric 2012-10-30 10:46|| || Front Page|| [336082 views ]  Top

#1 >but is 10 times more powerful

If you code for the hardware architecture... Which if you look at the CUDA/DirectX 11 documentation isn't as easy you think...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-10-30 15:06||   2012-10-30 15:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Multithreading semiphores, even with an executive, is tough. Interesting scale.
roughly equivalent to each of the world's seven billion people being able to carry out three million calculations per second

Lets speculate on a 'Game of Life' model. Each cell focusing on Life's rules until a random breakout occurs, then clusters appear around that cell. Interesting to monitor the viability of that cell given certain interventions available to the executive.
Posted by Skidmark 2012-10-30 15:17||   2012-10-30 15:17|| Front Page Top

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