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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Exaflops/s : WTF are Exaflop accelerating?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Exaflop is 1 quintillion flops (floating point math operations in a second.). Yes, probably can run DOOM.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That's the joke. The table has Exaflops/s => Exaflop /s^2^ => acceleration. Ah, no it doesn't, it has Exaflop/s rather than the normal Exaflops. My bad. Funny how you see what you expect to, no?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'll help with a layman explanation in addition to what op already defined.

    Teraflops is a measure of raw compute power often used to measure GPUs(but isn't really accurate to use to compare 2 different kinds, but that's a whole nother conversation). Exaflops are a million times more than teraflops.

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