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Former Member
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I think we should be actively recruiting for additional projects!
 At this rate, I think we're going to need to line up more work. ~100 Teraflops + for a 24 hours period!  Oh My! I remember back in June-July timeframe, we were really struggling. I'll make a prediction and say we'll be over 200K members by end of March 2006. |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Everyone here seems to be talking about Teraflops lately. What exactly is a (Tera)flop?
---------------------------------------- Sorry for the n00b-question, but Wikipedia doesn't give a clear answer...  |
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Former Member
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1 TeraFlop = 1000 GigaFlops!
just kidding.A measure of a computers computational power. Flops = Floating Point Operation per Second. Floating-point is, according to IBM, "a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers." Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily. A floating-point number is expressed as a basic number or mantissa, an exponent, and a number base or radix (which is often assumed). The number base is usually ten but may also be 2 http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid10_gci213966,00.html FLOPS is a common measure for any computer that runs these applications. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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94 years on a Sunday
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WildWilber
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Post Count: 168 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yeah. It's nice to be on the upswing.
----------------------------------------Output has about doubled since I ‘moseyed’ over to this grid last summer.  Good going everybody!  |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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1 TeraFlop = 1000 GigaFlops! just kidding.A measure of a computers computational power. Flops = Floating Point Operation per Second. Floating-point is, according to IBM, "a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers." Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily. A floating-point number is expressed as a basic number or mantissa, an exponent, and a number base or radix (which is often assumed). The number base is usually ten but may also be 2 http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid10_gci213966,00.html FLOPS is a common measure for any computer that runs these applications. Thanks, but how do you determine how many flops a computer "produces"? (Sorry I think I'm hijacking this topic, so I'll keep my mouth shut regarding the flops and everything ) |
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Wotan
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This is normal, maaaany ppl coming from FAD is joining WCG
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Former Member
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depriens,
mycrofth gave a link earlier in another forum that allows you to calculate stuff. This might give you an idea. I found it pretty helpful. http://www.ud.com/rescenter/ dreplogle |
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Former Member
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Lower right hand corner...The Power Calculator.
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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depriens
----------------------------------------If you want to know how many floating point operations you PC can do download SiSoftSandra from http://www.sisoftware.net/ It includes many useful applications in addition to a number of benchmarks that will let you know how your PC is running (or not) Just remember while ever you are running for instance the "Burn In" wizard that all that number crunching power could be used on the Grid. Take care, have fun, but if your PC starts smoking it wasn't me that gave you this advice  Dave |
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