Exactly my point. 200,000 times FASTER. He doesn’t say 200,000 times the clock cycles per second.
If I say my truck is twice as fast as yours, that doesn’t mean that one particular part in my engine runs twice as fast, it means that I can get from point A to point B in half the time.
If I say my truck is twice as fast as yours, that doesn’t mean that one particular part in my engine runs twice as fast, it means that I can get from point A to point B in half the time.
Ooh kay.
Exactly. What these very nice Freepers, members of the Apple Hate Brigade, can't seem to grasp is that in 2003, the third fastest computer in the world, which turned in 17.6 GigaFlops/Second, was at Virginia Tech, made up of 1100 dual core Apple G5 PowerMacs at 2.0MHz, nine months later upgraded to1350 2.2GHz Apple G5 xServers, turning in 19.6 GigaFlops.
The Virginia Tech supercomputer was bested only by the Los Alamos National Laboratory's 1.25GHz HP Alpha-Server with 8,192 cores, which turned 20,420 GigaFlops, and Japan's Earth Simulator with 5,120 Cores which turned 40,460 GigaFlops. . . and the most $ per Gigaflop efficient was the Apple.
Today, the fastest computer in the world that we know of, is the Chinese Supercomputer cluster composed of 3,120,000 Intel™ XEON core processors clocked at 2.2GHz which reportedly turns in an astounding 54,902.4 TeraFlops per second.
Those early supercomputers are, of course, no where close to modern supercomputers, but the clock speed of the Chinese latest and greatest is 2.2GHz, the same as that 2nd generation 2003 Apple G5 supercomputer cluster! What it does demonstrate is that computer clock speed has very little to do with the speed of computing.