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Date posted: 25/08/2004 RIKEN, an anglicized acronym for Japan's Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, described on Tuesday the MDGrape 3, a processor it thinks will become the cornerstone of a computer capable of operating at a petaflop, or a quadrillion operations per second--far faster than the 36 trillion ops supercomputers of today. Samples of the chip, which was designed for life sciences research, can now perform 230 gigaflops, or 230 billion operations per second, while running at 350MHz. It does this through twenty pipelines, each running in parallel, as opposed to the one or two found norally. So, it can quite literally do 20 things at once. See the full Story via external site: news.com.com Most recent stories in this category (Computing Power): 19/02/2017: Printable solar cells just got a little closer |
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