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Re:10 petaflop supercomputer in the making, will take US bac... by Devilboy on Thursday November 18, 2010 @01:08AM (#1917066)
Anyone want to guesstimate the date of the first exaflop computer?
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Re:10 petaflop supercomputer in the making, will take US bac... by sparky on Thursday November 18, 2010 @01:44AM (#1917109)
If you believe that the trend-line that has held surprisingly steady for the last 17 years ( http://top500.org/lists/2010/11/performance_development ) will keep going, than by my crude eyeballing it looks like about 2019. Granted, there are a lot of good reasons to think it won't quite hold.
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