Compare your PC to the world's fastest supercomputers!

[Jimbo Mahoney]

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.

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

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

Since about 10000 years ago

But seriously, why the skepticism?

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

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.

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.

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

"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!

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

Here

Same for all the servers, might be a tad overrated though.

I dont think it would be for 4-way as why quote that when these things are 5000+way

In that case, this benchmark isn't the same as the one they are using, but thanks for the info!

That system has 10880 CPUs in it, and its peak performance (theoretical) is 43520 GFlops, meaning each CPU is indeed 4 GFlops.

Damn. That means mine should be 6 GFlops

Someone find another benchmark!