Posted on 04/07/2014 11:23:16 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I searched IBM and graphene. The latest seems to be over a year ago:
http://www.graphene-info.com/tags/graphene-companies/ibm
Weeeellll, 500Ghz, pretty nice.
I would appreciate it if somebody more knowledgeable than me (a very large group) could explain how much this would speed processing up relative to existing systems.
Can someone help me to understand the significance of this advance if it works—both in terms of current technology and what kind of work this speed up will enable. (presumably this does not enable quantum computer speeds.)
for example to understand the meaning of 500 GHz ....correct me if I’m wrong — are we talking about typical desktops operating at about 4-5 GHz?
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according to this article
As our hardware analyst mentioned in his Haswell review, Intels new parts struggle to get past 4.5GHz on air, while Ivy Bridge could reliably hit 4.7GHz, with some parts reaching 4.9GHz. In reality, the picture is even muddier than that: Early reports suggest that some Haswell chips can only reach 4.3GHz, while others can get to 4.7GHz or higher (again, on air).
The diamond is a quantum chip at USC, not IBm
Gasp! This is a terrible, frightening event!
Carbon is POISONOUS!! All industrial use of carbon was well on it’s way to being properly suppressed as the awful Enemy of Nature that it is!!
STOP BIG CARBON FROM DESTROYING THE EARFF!!
(I can’t wait to hear some enviro say this seriously.)
I have my zoom up high and could not figure out what that was,....had do drop down to make it out....LOL
Want to take a crack at answering them.
We could have a good discussion .
Think superconductor. Low resistance, uses less power, less waste heat.
Science is equal opportunity....Samsung is no slouch....in manufacturing,.
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.
IBM has a Powerserver that has the top cycle time.
This would do damage to all of the ...enthusiasts doing overclocking.
Thanks
bunp
See 36 and 37.
Too bad the NSA has dibs on the first years supply.
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