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Currently, the world's most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past. On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
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The development rate began tapering off around 2008. Between 2010 and 2013, aggregate increases ranged between 26 percent and 66 percent. And on this June's list, there was a mere 17 percent increase from last November.
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Despite the slowdown, many computational scientists expect performance to reach exascale, or more than a billion billion operations per second, by 2020.
Hmm, if they reach exascale computing will the weatherman finally be able to predict if it's going to rain this afternoon? Because he sucks at that now.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday July 20 2015, @08:37PM
If you want an accurate weatherman, move.
Phoenix has a pretty accurate weather forecast.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Monday July 20 2015, @09:09PM
Is it expressed in "minutes to fry an egg on your hood while you steam buns in your trunk"?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday July 20 2015, @10:59PM
Lemme guess...... hot, racist, and angry for the next week? Or how many minutes till fatal exposure in a shopping mall parking lot?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Monday July 20 2015, @11:10PM
Is it still called weather when it's constant day-to-day all year long?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday July 20 2015, @11:36PM
My favorite weather CSB. I live in San Diego. Last Saturday at about 6:10 AM the news showed their Accurate FutureCast!!! predictions showing it would start raining at 9:30. 5 minutes later I got coffee, looked out the window, and it was pouring.
So Accurate FutureCast!!! can't get it right 5 minutes in the future.
Ok, in all honesty the weather was pretty messed up last weekend and hard to predict. But 5 minutes vs 3 hours is pretty bad.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1) by Kharnynb on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:33AM
I live in the finnish lake district, they can't predict when or where it will rain with enough accuracy to set a calender by, let alone a watch.
Then again, i've seen it rain across the street while our side was sunny and dry...large bodies of water really do make predicting the weather hard.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:52AM
I live outside of Phoenix, and yeah, weather prediction is very accurate here.
120F for the next 200 days? Check.
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