IP: more on The power of the people! (Humorous)

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: John Lyon <jelyon@jelyon.com>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:03:26 -0500
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: IP: The power of the people! (Humorous)

>From further down in the article (see last sentence)

> You have become a node in an amorphous supercomputer that, by some measures,
> matches the world's most powerful. Among computers inside a single building,
> the honor now goes to one recently installed at the Japanese government's
> Earth Simulator Research and Development Center in Yokohama, for climate
> prediction and other problems. Occupying a space the size of four basketball
> courts, it is rated at 35.6 teraflops, meaning that it can do 35.6 trillion
> calculations (gloating point operations, or flops) a second.

I like it. Gloating Point Operations. Perhaps the US can take back the lead
in "glops" with appropriate government focus and funding?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/science/physical/23COMP.html?ex=1021312924
&ei=1&en=3bee2cbe1972e909
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