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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @03:27AM
Consider that kids the days are tweeting each other with multicore cpus on mobile devices with gpus.
At one time one required a supercomputer to do anything in the way of scientific computing. Now one can obtain far more capacity for less than a grand by ordering online from Alibaba.
While some problems like the weather always benefit from greater capacity there are many that dont.
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