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 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.