[Year 12 IPM] An interesting fact

[WEIR Andrew]

Yikes.
That is some good figures.
Andrew

Andrew Weir
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-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:30 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] An interesting fact

 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
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria Australia
Phone +613 95780844  Fax +613 95789253
http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
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