Compare your PC to the world's fastest supercomputers!

Jimbo Mahoney · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:37

Just for a laugh...

Here are the current 500 fastest PCs in the world:

http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic#

BlueGene hits 280600 GFlops (2.8 x 10^14 Flops)

The Human Brain is estimated at around 100000000 GFlops (10^17 Flops), so we've a way to go yet. (Using Moore's Law, Supercomputers will reach this by about 2020).

The computer in my sig gets a lowly 1.1 Gflop, or ~ 1100 MFlops, or ~ 10^9 Flops.

Again, using Moore's Law, my home PC will reach the same power as my brain by 2042.

I used this command prompt (DOS) benchmark, as I believe it's similar to the ones used on the supercomputers:

LinPack for DOS

I found it here:

http://homepage.virgin.net/roy.longbottom/

For those interested in the 'philosophy' of what happens when computers become more intelligent than us (software permitting), have a read of this:

http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/tmol-faq.html

I strongly recommend it.

Sumanji · 26 Feb 2006 at 15:43

Bah, no support in x64. Neanderthals

That article looks immense btw.... don't suppose you know any good text to speech converters? Can't be arsed to read

Cheers,

Suman

233 · 26 Feb 2006 at 15:50

any gen on on them providing cpu limitations for a sli setup

fini · 26 Feb 2006 at 16:07

sumang007 said:
don't suppose you know any good text to speech converters? Can't be arsed to read

havent tried it, but google suggested it

fini

Spyhop · 26 Feb 2006 at 16:29

Jimbo Mahoney said:
The Human Brain is estimated at around 100000000 GFlops (10^17 Flops)

Huh? 10^17 floating point operations per second? Since when? :confused:

Naffa · 26 Feb 2006 at 16:45

i remember that if the graphical power if the Dell XPS Renegade was entered here, it would rank 75th

Jimbo Mahoney · 26 Feb 2006 at 18:21

wush said:
Huh? 10^17 floating point operations per second? Since when?

Since about 10000 years ago

But seriously, why the skepticism?

Dr Who · 26 Feb 2006 at 18:26

wush said:
Huh? 10^17 floating point operations per second? Since when?

How do you think your brain triangulates the approach of a ball so your hand can catch it...

Do you know of any supercomputer that can do that?

m3csl2004 · 26 Feb 2006 at 18:37

do you know how many dumb people can catch

will do this on this 2.8 cely later- expecting about 0.5 flops tbh

marc2003 · 26 Feb 2006 at 20:34

832.62 Mflops

Spyhop · 26 Feb 2006 at 21:30

Jimbo Mahoney said:
Since about 10000 years ago

But seriously, why the skepticism?

Because it's a measurement of how fast a cpu can perform a certain type of instruction using floating point numbers. How is that applicable to the brain? It's about as relevant as giving the brain a 3DMark2003 rating

Dace · 26 Feb 2006 at 21:43

sumang007 said:
don't suppose you know any good text to speech converters? Can't be arsed to read

Install Opera > Highlight article text > Voice

Job done.

Oops Dead Again · 26 Feb 2006 at 23:59

wush said:
Because it's a measurement of how fast a cpu can perform a certain type of instruction using floating point numbers. How is that applicable to the brain? It's about as relevant as giving the brain a 3DMark2003 rating

I don't know my brain scored 348 on 3DMark2003 but I am patiently waiting for new drivers from the missus to see if I can break through the 500 mark. Taking an ear bashing for not doing all my chores is a real system hog though.

m3csl2004 · 27 Feb 2006 at 00:04

my brain has no sm3 support

Jokester · 27 Feb 2006 at 00:06

m3csl2004 said:
my brain has no sm3 support

Pfft, my brain can render in real time (and actually quicker) scenes that you can't tell the difference between that and real life

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Jokester

Edit: Actually, it's just about time to go and experience some it! Night night

Sumanji · 27 Feb 2006 at 00:44

m3csl2004 said:
my brain has no sm3 support

Rofl

Jimbo Mahoney · 27 Feb 2006 at 14:05

wush said:
Because it's a measurement of how fast a cpu can perform a certain type of instruction using floating point numbers. How is that applicable to the brain? It's about as relevant as giving the brain a 3DMark2003 rating

It's an extrapolation from studies done on the retina and how much processing power is involved in computer visual processing / tracking etc etc.

Jokester said:
Pfft, my brain can render in real time (and actually quicker) scenes that you can't tell the difference between that and real life .

Touche.

Street · 27 Feb 2006 at 15:06

Dace said:
Install Opera > Highlight article text > Voice

Job done.

Thats quite cool... never noticed that option in my Opera before! Time to have a play with it

Kamakazie! · 27 Feb 2006 at 15:30

"The computer in my sig gets a lowly 1.1 Gflop, or ~ 1100 MFlops, or ~ 10^9 Flops"

On the site provided is says that a 2ghz opteron is capable of 4Gflops... if thats true then even taking into account that thats for a dual core it would still mean yours is a very low score?!?

Jimbo Mahoney · 27 Feb 2006 at 16:04

Kamakazie! said:
"The computer in my sig gets a lowly 1.1 Gflop, or ~ 1100 MFlops, or ~ 10^9 Flops"

On the site provided is says that a 2ghz opteron is capable of 4Gflops... if thats true then even taking into account that thats for a dual core it would still mean yours is a very low score?!?

linky?

I suspect that's for a four-way or something.

We'd need more people to run the bench here to get a better idea!