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>> Is it even reasonable to include the aggregate sum of the microcomputers of that era? Not if you want to simulate an H-bomb I think so. Since no one's going
by meric 11y ago
>> Is it even reasonable to include the aggregate sum of the microcomputers of that era? Not if you want to simulate an H-bomb
I think so. Since no one's going to be simulating an H-bomb on an iPhone anyway. If we are going to argue maybe there are soldiers trapped in a nuclear-proof bunker with a nuclear bomb and before they launch it they want to simulate it, and all they have is an iPhone, we can argue the same case for a microcomputer.
- dalke 11y agoI was being a bit facetious. My underlying point was that the network overhead on a microcomputer likely overwhelms a "Beowulf cluster" (to use a 1990s term) of them, so 10,000 microcomputers in practice won't be anywhere near 10,000x the performance of a single microcomputer. What then is the goal of estimating the aggregate raw MFLOPs for the USSR? As a side point, Apple doesn't allow a compiler or language interpreter on their iPhone, so unless they either had the app beforehand, or access to a development machine, they won't be able to anything with it. While if they had an Apple ][ they could start right away in Apple BASIC on the ROM.