GFLOP

[glorybound]

http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/

What the heck is a gflop?

[instinct]

Short for Giga-Flops where :

FLOPS = FLOatingPointoperationsPerSecond
Giga = Million.

so 1 GFlops = 1 Billion Floating Point operations a second

Regards,
Thorsten

[sea2stars]

One billion Floating Point Operations Per Second.

[glorybound]

gflops

Anything I need to render faster?

[dlparisi]

I may be wrong but I think that beowolf cluster is little out of date - 1 dual quad xeon easily outpaces it, http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/hpcapp.htm. Build it with 5345's instead of the 5355's and you could do it for about $2000 and it'll have better price/performance and power/gflop ratios . Isn't progress great .

[Tog]

A simple Core 2 Duo has the same power.

Last month, I visited this beast:

http://www.top500.org/system/8237

60 TFLOPS

[dlparisi]

A simple Core 2 Duo has the same power.

Really? Maybe a Core 2 quad but I'd be suprised if if a duo could reach that level.

The tour of that monster looks cool though.

[Tog]

Look your link, Dual Core intel Xenon: 38.3 GFLOP

[dlparisi]

Yeah, but that had two dual core xeon's so one is basically 19. Still pretty damn impressive though and pretty close to the 26 on the cluster. An overclocked core 2 duo could probably give it a run for the money though without too much trouble so your probably right that a core 2 duo has the same power.