Sentences with phrase «quadrillion operations»

Assuming that each synapse processes one action potential per second and that these transactions represent the brain's computational output, then the brain performs at least one quadrillion operations per second, almost a thousand times more than the best supercomputers.

In comparison, IBM's Blue Gene / P supercomputer, introduced a year ago, can be configured to process up to 3 quadrillion operations per second.

Assuming that the brain contains one quadrillion synapses processing on average 10 action potentials per second and that these transactions represent the brain's computational output, then the brain performs at 10 quadrillion operations per second.

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That's 93 quadrillion floating point operations per second (or 93 million billion).

And China recently announced plans to upgrade the Tianhe - 2 machine to about 100 petaflops (quadrillions of floating point operations per second).

Performing at 1 petaflop means a computer can complete a quadrillion floating - point mathematical operations per second.

Inside the supercomputer, at speeds reaching 17 quadrillion mathematical operations every second, every antenna's signal is paired with every other antenna's signal.

Cheyenne is capable of 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second (5.34 petaflops, or floating point operations per second).

That means the system — dubbed Sequoia — will handle a quadrillion mathematical operations per second and run about 10 times faster than... [more]

That means the system — dubbed Sequoia — will handle a quadrillion mathematical operations per second and run about 10 times faster than today's top supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was also built by I.B.M.»