This from CPU magazine:
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"The first computer to surpass 1 teraFLOPS of processing power was the Sandia National Laboratories' ASCI Red supercomputer in 1997, which--in its final configuration--made use of 9,298 Pentium II processors in more than 100 cabinets, and occupied...2500 square feet."
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This supercomputer used about 500kw of power to operate and another 500kw of power for cooling--one megawatt. Compare that to ATI's Radeon 4870 video card, which uses 160w of energy total and has one teraFLOPS of processing power.
So, eleven years later, we can get the same processing power for 1/6,250th of the energy requirement. Isn't technology great?
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Yes technology is so cool, recently I saw this Youtube video on nano batteries from mphase. The narrator mentions how moores law has been continually reached but batteries only witnessed modest improvement until now.heres the video
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