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by sillysaurus3 4469 days ago
New benchmarking scheme: "Entire available computing power on the planet in year XXXX"

Awesome.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Histo...

Another fun one. At 8 Teraflops it makes it equivalent to the top supercomputer of 2000. So our desktops (in terms of raw computing capability) are only about 14 years behind supercomputers, and that gap is closing rapidly.