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The 1961 number has gotta be extrapolation, not actual data, or else there was some serious underground-city scale computing center buried in Antartica . . . Ma
by kabdib 11y ago
The 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.