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by ForOldHack 364 days ago
Adjust the price of the Cray-1, for inflation, but not the power, for Moore's law? Need I get my napkin out for a few calculations? or do we just FORGET MOORE'S LAW ( that is mention no less that 4 times, without quantification? Cray-1 (1976 ). RPi ( 2012 ). 37 years of elapsed time. 24. 2/3 elapsed generations. 26,509,000 times increase in power. Cray 1 160Mf. In a 26M times faster, would yield 4,241Gf ( 4.2Pf) , while the PI1 is capable of 13.5Gf, so the RPi-1 ( 2012 ) is about 0.31% of where Moore's law power doubling is.

Now lets compare this to the top 500. ( see the point? )( do not speak of Moore's law, while ignoring the mathematical implications. ) ( and yes, 3/1000s is three thousandths ).

Top 500 is 1.7 Exaflops, but by Moore's law should be 4,241Gf or 4.2Xf. So the top 500 is not keeping up with Moore's law.

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However Moores Law refers to the number of transistors. Not FLOPS.