If you had an 8-core CPU in your desktop machine and they were running at 500Ghz then your PC would qualify as a super-computer.
It could simulate the physics needed to do realistic real-time hi-res 3D-graphics without breaking a sweat. Your current PC would take weeks or months to generate a single frame.
It could do strange things like alter your image in real-time so that you could look and sound exactly like someone else on a live video chat.
It could handle simulations of nuclear devices.
If you could feed it the data it could monitor all US cell traffic in real-time and watch for keywords.
Creating the software to take advantage of such power would be the hardest part.
Just imagine 10,000 cores running at 500Ghz.
Too bad the NSA has dibs on the first years supply.
Wow. Thanks much.
agreed
starting to get interesting
the real question then becomes, what do you do with it? games? analysis? simulators? monitoring? proper AI?
we’ll still have issues with storage being dead slow... unless this tech opens doors to new storage mediums that store one bit per molecule ... addressable? SSDs at a molecular level and at 500GHz speeds? storage and memory become the same