Petascale Computer
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An Petascale Computer is a computer that can perform between 1 and 999 peta-FLOPS.
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- See: Megabytes-per-Second, Quadrillion, Petabyte.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/petascale_computing Retrieved:2015-2-20.
- In computing, petascale refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops, i.e. one quadrillion floating point operations per second. The standard benchmark tool is LINPACK and Top500.org is the organization which tracks the fastest supercomputers. Some uniquely specialized petascale computers do not rank on the Top500 list since they cannot run LINPACK. This makes comparisons to ordinary supercomputers hard.
Petascale can also refer to very large storage systems where the capacity exceeds one petabyte (PB).
- In computing, petascale refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops, i.e. one quadrillion floating point operations per second. The standard benchmark tool is LINPACK and Top500.org is the organization which tracks the fastest supercomputers. Some uniquely specialized petascale computers do not rank on the Top500 list since they cannot run LINPACK. This makes comparisons to ordinary supercomputers hard.
2013
- http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
- QUOTE: … If peta-scale computers like the K computer are capable of representing 1% of the network of a human brain today, then we know that simulating the whole brain at the level of the individual nerve cell and its synapses will be possible with exa-scale computers hopefully available within the next decade,” explains Diesmann ...