[soniiic (Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:31PM]

63,000,000 calculations per second divided by 12,000 desktop PCs = 5250

Ummm, i'm sure all desktop PCs do more than 5250 calculations per second :/

[Mike (Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:49PM]

That number seemed a bit low to me too

[soniiic (Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:41PM]

just googled and came up with this:

"It is now possible to buy a system capable of 15 Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second (GFLOPS) for about $750."

source: http://www.linux-mag.com/microsites.php?site=business-class-hpc&sid=main&p=4088

a GFLOP is a billion FLOPS, yet i don't know if this directly means 15billion calculations, or much less due to it being an 'operation' but from my knowledge, it can't be only 63 million calculations...

[soniiic (Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:46PM]

63 trillion yay!

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2008/jan/03/supercomputers?picture=331931869

[Kurtis (Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 2:51PM]

wow Engadget, way to be off by a factor of a million...

[looselycoupled Posted Jan 14th 2008 6:45PM]

@kurtis
LOL.. no kidding.

@engadget
Silly rabbit, megaflops are for kids. That Trillions of floating point operations per second (TeraFlops)