[potatolicious]

My desktop, that I pieced together in 2011, has more computing power (including the GPU) than the fastest supercomputer in 1999 (~3 TFLOPS for GPU+CPU perf).

If you have some cash burning a hole in your pocket, you can piece together a ~10 TFLOP machine today entirely from NewEgg without doing anything too fancy.

Technology is funny.

[dmm]

Are you sure about that? The TOP500 list uses the linpack benchmark to measure double-precision FLOPS. The numbers you cite for your machine sound more like those you would get with single-precision.

For comparision, the GTX Titan can do about 1.5 TFLOPS in double-precision and about 3.2 TFLOPS in single-precision doing GEMM.

[potatolicious]

Well shit, you're right, I'm an idiot.