The Earth Simulator, located in Yokohoma, Japan, sits at the top of the current Top 500 http://www.top500.org list with a peak performance of 40 TeraFLOPS per second and a LINPACK benchmark peak of 35.6 TFLOPS/second.
Following is the performance spec of the Earth Simulator:
5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
shared memory inside the node
640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
20 kVA power consumption per node
Well, I’m asking ;p
I did a google search and saw that TeraFLOPS is a company. I take it they specialize in combining many processors or something?
Edit: 2 560 000 MHZ?
most probably, I wouldn’t know for sure… this was mentionned to me on icq from one of my friends who happened to stumble upon a popup concerning said topic
The Earth Simulator, located in Yokohoma, Japan, sits at the top of the current Top 500 http://www.top500.org list with a peak performance of 40 TeraFLOPS per second and a LINPACK benchmark peak of 35.6 TFLOPS/second.
Following is the performance spec of the Earth Simulator:
5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
shared memory inside the node
640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
20 kVA power consumption per node [/b]
FLOPS = Floating point operations, basically a calculation involving real numbers
So TeraFLOPS is a trillian floating point operations.
There was also a company called MIPS (they actually made a processor for the N64, and the rabbit in Mario 64 was named MIPS after the company). MIPS is Million Instuctions per Second. The company was named after the abbreviation.
I am guessing a company named TeraFLOPS would be doing the same thing, naming the company after the measure of high performance computing power most prevalent at the time.