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sigmar
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Are Computers Still Getting Faster? [video]
8.3 trillion per GFlop is equivalent to $8300 per Flop
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swimfar
on Jan 11, 2016
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Not sure why you got downvoted, but just a small nitpick. It's FLOPS for FLoating-point Operations Per Second. Otherwise $8300 per FLoating-point OPeration would be quite pricy for almost any time period. ;)
0_00_0
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Cheaper to hire actual human computers at that point.
Houshalter
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How many humans can do a floating point operation in a single second? And do them 24/7 without error?
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