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Are supercomputers outdated?
Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model the decay of the US nuclear weapons arsenal was clocked at speeds no computer in the history of Earth had ever reached. Today, that computer has been declared obsolete and it’s being taken offline.
What is bigger than a petaflop?
A gigaflop is a billion floating-point operations per second, a teraflop is one trillion, and a petaflop is a quadrillion. FLOPS particularly matter when you are talking about high-performance computing.
How much faster is a supercomputer?
Its theoretical top speed is 27 petaflops, which doesn’t sound that impressive unless you know that it means 27,000 trillion calculations per second [source: ORNL]. That’s hundreds of thousands times faster than your top-of-the-line PC.
What is the cost of supercomputer?
Titan (supercomputer)
| Titan in 2013 | |
|---|---|
| Active | Became operational October 29, 2012; decommissioned August 2, 2019 |
| Speed | 17.59 petaFLOPS (LINPACK) 27 petaFLOPS theoretical peak |
| Cost | US$97 million (equivalent to $109 million in 2020) |
| Ranking | TOP500: 4th, June 2017 |
How many petaflop supercomputers will we have by 2030?
With a change to cryogenic technologies, we can reach yottaFLOPS by 2030. The world is currently on the verge of ExaFLOP supercomputers. The USA just revealed a 200 petaFLOP supercomputer. China will soon complete three supercomputers that will be close to ExaFLOP and one or more could reach ExaFLOP performance.
When will we reach yottaflops supercomputers?
With a change to cryogenic technologies, we can reach yottaFLOPS by 2030. The world is currently on the verge of ExaFLOP supercomputers. The USA just revealed a 200 petaFLOP supercomputer.
When will we be able to predict the weather with supercomputers?
By 2030, it’s hoped, zettaflop supercomputers should be able to accurately model the entire Earth’s weather systems at least two weeks out [source: Thorpe ]. We’re talking about 99 to 100 percent accurate simulations of our entire planet and ecosphere, with local and global predictions available at the press of a button.
What will the zettaFLOPS of the future look like?
Continuing into the future, zettaflops improve on the same scale, giving us 10^21 operations per second by 2030, and then come the yottaflops, at 10^24 [source: TOP500 ]. But what do those numbers really mean?