[Retric]

This is 2013 with most of those computers likely even older than 2013 and likely single core vs 3,120,000 brand new cores on the supercomputer. So, in terms of “raw” flops it’s just a question of more and newer hardware on the supercomputer not really better architecture.

[dahart]

Good point! I guess handwavy-napkin-math that looks like roughly ~2x more flops/core for the Tianhe-2, which is unsurprising for the latest supercomputer vs rando home computer. Maybe even surprising the number isn’t higher...

It’s probably worth noting that Seti@home has partitioned the problem space so that it’s “embarrassingly parallel”, as they say. I think raw flops are a good metric in this case, where raw flops is a very bad metric for some problems.