subject: Nebulae , The Computer More Powerful In The World [print this page] Today's computers(Sony VGP-BPS9 battery) can do millions of operations per second : a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 is able to produce 3.6 x 109 bits per second. Obviously it comes to pure power , without making comparisons with the common tasks that require processing but not a single bit . While the normal PC power is calculated on the basis of performance than applications types (such as different benchmark software ) , super computers are categorized and sorted by power based on the number of mathematical operations a second compibili This is because the super computer used to perform calculations for use in scientific research.
The world's fastest computer(Apple A1175 battery) was located until recently in the USA : Jagar called , was built in Oak Ridge laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy . Now the primacy of Jagar was superseded by Nebulae : superPC source Cinisi, unable to produce 1.271 petaflop per second , being in second position on Jaguar.
The flop (Floating Point Operations Per Second) is a unit of measurement used in computing to indicate the number of floating point operations performed by a CPU in normal PC systems is not directly the CPU to deal with such operations, but a microprocessor specially programmed , the FPU . But why the Nebulae, although able to perform fewer operations per second than Jaguar, is considered the best super PC(Dell XPS M170 battery) ? This happens because the power of which was mentioned earlier is that media on the peaks , the situation changes. Nebulae reached 2.98 petaflops per second, while Jaguar stops at 2.3 petaflops per second. Jaguar also consumes less than 7 MW of electric power , while Nebulae stops at 2.55 MW.
