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by dahart 2289 days ago
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.