That day may be closer than they think, but even with the speed of today's supercomputers, only quantum computers can have that capability.
That day may be closer than they think, but even with the speed of today's supercomputers, only quantum computers can have that capability.
Last week, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that the latest El Capitan supercomputer can perform 2.79 trillion calculations per second, making it the fastest computer in the world.
To understand the value, it's 2.79 followed by 15 zeros.
To compare that to what El Capitan can do in 1 second, over 100 million of the latest iPhones would have to perform 1 calculation
at a time, Jeremy Thomas of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory told Decrypt. It's a stack of phones over 5 miles high.
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The results were presented at the annual SC Conference, an international conference dedicated to high-performance computing, held Monday in Atlanta, Georgia. El Capitan was ranked 500th on the list of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, which is compiled twice a year by the project top 1.
At Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, together with Hewlett-Packard Company, AMD, and the Ministry of Energy to develop El Capitan-systems to produce high performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance, high-performance For example, a computer like El Capitan performs 5.4 trillion operations per second, which is 2.7 million times faster than a typical home computer.
Using a telephone analogy, Thomas calculated that to do what El Capitan can do in 1 second would require more than 8 billion people working simultaneously for 80 years.
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