Monday, November 17, 2008

Making Man As Super As His Computer

Making Man As Super As His Computer | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial calculation."