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[pascal]

IIRC they are working with 10microsec. Also the agregated pFLOP of 35,000 computers maybe more than 1 pFLOP for very low cost (operation and programming).

That was my point Pascal, I think your doing a great and noble thing putting a team together and I'll support you; Yet, I don't see the point. Even with 35,000 users who are doing other things concurrently - we'll pretend there is 100% utilization (which is ridiculous when you think of the ineffeciencies piled on: Between the inherient Von Neumann architecture's problems and the additional user created ineffeciencies concerning the OS and aggregate preformance deminishing programs) that output an average 8GFlop/s. Thats ~280TFlop at 100% effeciency if I did the math in my head right. Thats a quarter of ONE Blue Gene system in theory, perhaps a 10th (~28TFlops) atmost in reality. Add to this that within 2 years you'll potentially be buying PCs and Consoles with TFlop range MPUs based on the IBM/SUN (or Intel to a lesser extent) type architectures that just scream massive concurrency and onboard DRAM; and buy them them for $300-$1000.

And what about hundreds of thousands of nodes and each one with the MPUs you described?

Also the number of computers depends on the number of people that want to help.

This be true, and that numbers goin' up by atleast two thanks to you

Thanks to all of us

 

[Crusher]

More in depth, detailed information on the background and theory:

http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/trades/index.html

 

[pascal]

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Lets move. The Beyond3D_Team number 32377 is waiting you
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5668