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Folding@home Thoughts on passing a petaflop

 
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:17 pm    Post subject: Folding@home Thoughts on passing a petaflop Reply with quote
As many of you have heard, we've passed a petaflop in performance for FAH. A petaflop is 1 million-billion floating point operations per second, i.e. 10^15 operations per second or 1,000,000,000,000,000. If we gave everyone on the planet a calculator,...

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