SO IBM hypersters are claiming their cell chip can do two teraflops per second. what about the lastest power5??? Go to IBM.com and find out Here.
There you can see the latest and fastest power5 dual core processors can do 56.78 Gigaflop/sec in an eight way configuration. That's 16 Power5 cores combined, and the total is only 56.78 gigaflops for 16 lowly Power5 cores, or, about three gigaflops/per core. which makes sense, a float point operation takes more than one clock to finish, and each power5 core has probably two or more FP units...

So, there is no magic, you can't possibly do more than one instruction in one clock in one unit. You can do multiple if you have multiple units. To have 1000gigaflops, you will need 500 units each operate at two gigaflops.

A teraflop means 1000 gigaflops, so IBM is claiming that one PS3 is 2000% faster than an eight way power5 server selling at half a million bucks??

This is stupid.

Taken from theinquirer.com

Interesting. Did.. did they lie? They wouldn't lie..

Xbox 360 boasted just over 1 teraflop didn't they? How could they even pull off the one, that would still mean 1000% faster than the 8 way power5 server.

The whole shindig is starting to reek like a locker room full of dead fish on a hot sunday afternoon. There seems to be alot of 'well mines bigger than yours because i say so' going on...

This also means MS are talking BS

1 teraflop = £1/4million worth of G5 chips



I knew they were willy waving

Well the weakest Cray Computer has 6 Terraflops so....

hey u neva
urxbox360/ps3 culd b worth a fortune