A whole community of rationalists and nobody has noticed that his elementary math is wrong?
1.9 gigaFLOPS doubled 8 times is around 500 gigaFLOPS, not 500 teraFLOPS.
Big difference, and one that trashes his conclusion.
*headdesk*
Yet another reason to favor exponential notation, I think.
Whoa!
You are right!
I originally excluded the modern supercomputers, because they are a different category of beast—not really “computers”, but networks of computers. Then I included Ranger when I saw its hardware costs were only $30 million.
A whole community of rationalists and nobody has noticed that his elementary math is wrong?
1.9 gigaFLOPS doubled 8 times is around 500 gigaFLOPS, not 500 teraFLOPS.
Big difference, and one that trashes his conclusion.
*headdesk*
Yet another reason to favor exponential notation, I think.
Whoa!
You are right!
I originally excluded the modern supercomputers, because they are a different category of beast—not really “computers”, but networks of computers. Then I included Ranger when I saw its hardware costs were only $30 million.