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The $24M per year (23MW) for the electricity for the Tianhe-2 was quite shocking. This is against the 13W that the brain uses: https://www.scientificamerican.c
by icc97 9y ago
The $24M per year (23MW) for the electricity for the Tianhe-2 was quite shocking.
This is against the 13W that the brain uses: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calories/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-cal...
So the brain has a million times more the processing power and uses a million times less power.
- JacobiX 9y ago>> So the brain has a million times more the processing power and uses a million times less power. A commodity smartphone is millions of times more powerful than all of NASA's combined computing in 1970 and more energy efficient. A factor of 10^6 is maybe achievable with a specialized quantum computer in the mid-term future ?
- icc97 9y agoThe post speculates 2037 - 2080. So yes similar timescales from the 70s til now.