Submitted by nick7566 t3_yx85zf in singularity
JuneOnReddit t1_iworjxz wrote
What's exascale?
berdiekin t1_iwpoxte wrote
in very simple terms computing power of supercomputers is often defined by FLOPS (floating point operations per second) because a lot of simulations require just that.
1 FLOP would be 1 operation per second. And just like with storage you can pre-pend it with kilo, mega, giga, ...
So 1 kiloflop would be 1000 operations per second, 1 megaflop would be 1000 kiloflops, ... etc.
Then mega -> giga -> tera -> peta -> exa. So yeah, we're finally breaching exaFlops of computing power which is big. Even just a couple of years ago we were barely reaching 100 PFLOPS and now we're already aiming beyond 10 EFLOPS. We're talking absolutely INSANE levels of computing power
ReadSeparate t1_iwqtf27 wrote
> pre-pend
This guy programs
berdiekin t1_iwz0kvf wrote
you are correct, I code for a living.
Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_ix6rjhw wrote
Exascale is a Quintillion Floating Point Operations per second, or: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS. That is an absolutely enormous number
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