Square Kilometre Array bid

[WikiWill]

http://www.theage.com.au/national/-1kqsp.html

The science and technology that sits behind a project of this scale (not to mention the money) is incredible. Awesome stuff!  :aus1:

[LawryB]

A million trillion operations per second (exaflop)      Even faster than a pollie making excuses.   biggrin

[Mike Mitchell]

A million trillion operations per second (exaflop)

Yeah, but how fast would it Boinc?!

Even faster than a pollie making excuses. 

Now that cracked me up. 

[danhtruong]

Exaflop?

Surely they're sensationalising the story.

The computing requirements to crunch all that data would cost more than the project!

[danhtruong]

Just to clarify, the highest ranked of TOP500; K Computer in Japan has an Rmax of 8 Petaflops.
68,544 SPARC64 VIIIfx processors

[Mike Mitchell]

In the article it says that not all the equipment was available yet.

Even so, all they need is about 125 K Computer's to get 1Exaflop. 

[WikiWill]

Exaflop?

Surely they're sensationalising the story.

The computing requirements to crunch all that data would cost more than the project!

They would if you bought today. Remember that they are looking a long way ahead in this bid. Moore's law should put that within reach, even allowing for some approaching limits at the molecular level...

[danhtruong]

That's a good point WikiWill,  i failed to take that inconsideration.

don't know how much smaller we can make the fabrication though, 32mn to 28nm to 14nm...

[Mike Mitchell]

According to the ABC Catalyst reporter fabrication should be able to get down to a few atoms across. That and race track memory should push the boundaries of computers quite a bit. I'm still looking forward to quantum computers though.

[danhtruong]

Funny, every major upgrade i've had, from Athlon Thunderbird to Sandy Bridge, nm and voltage goes down, efficiency goes up, but my heatsink gets bigger and bigger!

same goes for the video card.  in fact, got me wondering what they'll do next with the space constraints on the higher end models. 
my two HD 6870 are virtually kissing eachother in their respective PCIe slots and gasping for air. 

[Sean]

I'm still looking forward to quantum computers though.

Don't forget optical computers, which will use photons instead of electrons. Or maybe an optical quantum computer... :drool:

[Mike Mitchell]

Or maybe an optical quantum computer... :drool:

If only!!!   I'll Google it and see if there is such a thing.

Goodness me! There is! And it's being researched here in Australia! Link. I wonder who we'll give that away too?  ::)