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>each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops That ... doesn't make much sense, honestly.
by moralestapia 6y ago
>each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops
That ... doesn't make much sense, honestly.
- jecel 6y agoThe problem is the sloppy use of technical terms. MIPS means "millions of instructions per second" so the "p" is "per" and the "s" is "second". So it is natural for people to use FLOPS in the exact same way, but it is more correct for this to be "FLoating point OPerationS" where the "s" is used to indicate a plural. That makes MIPS the equivalent of power (Watts) and FLOPS the equivalent of energy (Jouls). In that case limiting each Formula 1 team to a maximum of 25 teraflops of computation does make sense. If instead you use teraflops as the equivalent of "trillion floating point operations per second" as many people do then it indeed makes less sense.
- moralestapia 6y agoMy thoughts exactly. But then, the article explicitly states that they are talking about "trillion floating point operations per second". It's probably just a mistake from the journalist.