Re:Japan plans 130-petaflops supercomputer
by ju-st on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:41AM
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Is $173M expensive or cheap for 130 petaflops?
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Re:Japan plans 130-petaflops supercomputer
by jankiel on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:55AM
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Sunway TaihuLight (the most powerful supercomputer right now) was benchmarked to have 93 petaflops[1].
The cost was 1.8 billion Yuan (US$273 million). So cheap I guess.
[1] https://www.top500.org/news/china-tops-supercomputer-ranking...