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Most computing power advancement is now in GPUs, which have had tremendous increases: Approximate cost per GFLOPS Date | 2013 US Dollars 1961
by Houshalter 11y ago
Most computing power advancement is now in GPUs, which have had tremendous increases:
Approximate cost per GFLOPS
Date | 2013 US Dollars
1961 | $8.3 trillion
1984 | $42,780,000
1997 | $42,000
2000 | $1,300
2003 | $100
2007 | $52
2011 | $1.80
June 2013 | $0.22
November 2013 | $0.16
December 2013 | $0.12
January 2015 | $0.08
- pedrocr 11y agoIs that actual data or just an exponential approximation?
- kabdib 11y agoThe 1961 number has gotta be extrapolation, not actual data, or else there was some serious underground-city scale computing center buried in Antartica . . . Man from U.N.C.L.E. anyone? :-)
- sigmar 11y ago8.3 trillion per GFlop is equivalent to $8300 per Flop No underground city required
- swimfar 11y agoNot sure why you got downvoted, but just a small nitpick. It's FLOPS for FLoating-point Operations Per Second. Otherwise $8300 per FLoating-point OPeration would be quite pricy for almost any time period. ;)
- 0_00_0 11y agoCheaper to hire actual human computers at that point.
- Houshalter 11y agoHow many humans can do a floating point operation in a single second? And do them 24/7 without error?
- Houshalter 11y agoIt is based on the cost of IBM 1620 which cost $64,000 each. It would have taken 17 million of them to get 1 GFLOP.
- Houshalter 11y agoI stole it from Wikipedia, which has more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Cost_of_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Cost_of_computing
- jacobolus 11y agoPlotted in Matlab with semilogy: http://i.imgur.com/xG0mngX.png http://i.imgur.com/xG0mngX.png
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- chrisseaton 11y agoGreat! So if my problem is embarrassingly parallel then I'm all set.
- Houshalter 11y agoThere are few domains that can't benefit from parallelization at all. And the domains which consume the most computing power tend to be embarrassingly parallel and require lots of floating point ops. Graphics and AI especially. Your word processor might not get much faster in the future, but it's speech recognition will.
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- cpach 11y agoEmacs is already fast enough for me :-p
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