how far consoles have progressed3. I thought it was even more interesting to look at how far PC graphics have progressed - ATI and Nvidia are shipping TFLOPS add-in-boards (AIBs). The next-generation of GPUs coming out in June will be approaching 5 TFLOPS per...

has a sustained performance rating of 117.9 TFlops (driven by 3560 3 GHz, quad-core Xeon 5300 CPUs), the Shanghai Supercomputer Center stands at 8.1 TFlops (using 1280 2.2 GHz dual-core Opteron processors). China decided to upgrade its Dawning 4000A racks and...

more computational speed is required and it is generally believed that the needed technology is about ten years out in the future. With GPUs that are already capable of delivering 1 TFlops per chip and a trend that doubles the performance every 12 months, we...