[Year 12 IPM] An interesting fact

[Mark Kelly]

 From the latest copy of Australian Personal Computer, I was surprised 
to read, and my kids were dumbfounded to hear...

* A 1989 Cray 3 supercomputer could do 5 gigaflops (floating operations/sec)

* A Pentium 4 3.8GHz CPU does 15 Gflops

* An NVIDIA 7800 GTX video card does (wait for it) 169 Gflops

So, d'ya reckon Intel might be a mite worried?


Read more at
http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/5F125BA4653309A3CA25705A0005AD27

-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
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