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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 cafebabe on Friday July 24 2015, @02:03PM
As someone who was previously involved with a large renderfarm [soylentnews.org], I confirm that it was upgraded to gigabit Ethernet switches solely to improve benchmarks. When a renderfarm node reads a .rib file and writes a .dpx file every 45 minutes or so, gigabit Ethernet makes minimal difference to performance.
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