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Topic: Bitcoin: The world's first example of exascale computing. (Read 1081 times)

legendary
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>bitcoin
>PetaFLOPS
LOL


you do realize bitcoin uses 0 floating point calculations, rite?
legendary
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We're not quite there yet, but pretty damn close:

http://bitcoinwatch.com/

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PetaFLOPS    967.52

Got there sooner than anyone thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing

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Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008.[1] (One exaflop is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 1018, floating point operations per second.) At a supercomputing conference in 2009, Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018.[2]
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