Last year, a U.S. military computer reached the astronomic processing power of more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second.
The technique is so sensitive that it can detect a single radioactive carbon atom hiding among a quadrillion (one million billion) ordinary ones.
The beast sucks up 4 megawatts of power to forecast weather and survey mines at a speed of 2.5 quadrillion calculations per second.
Verisign currently handles about four trillion queries a day, and aims to have the capacity to handle four quadrillion queries a day by 2020.
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Once completed, the system will be able to perform 10 quadrillion operations per second, making it one of the fastest computers on the planet.
Multiply that by 3, 000 pilots and 5, 500 flight attendants and the conceivable permutations run up to one quadrillion--that's a 1 followed by 15 zeros.
The biggest supercomputer ever built handles 11 quadrillion flops (or petaflops, a 1 with 15 zeroes) and draws 13 megawatts, the juice of nine wind turbines.
Approximately 2.7 quadrillion cubic feet of gas reserves are recoverable enough to supply the United States for 110 years at current rates of consumption.
With that question, the NBA was off to create a digital database through which fans can access over 4.5 quadrillion combinations of stats from 500 different statistical categories.
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These core uses (what they refer to as direct water and steam services in the commercial, residential, industrial and power sectors) eat up 12.3 quadrillion BTU per year.
This half-build system achieved the world's best LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second), to place it at the head of the TOP500 list.
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To put that in perspective, the Energy Information Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, estimates the country annually consumes 100 quads (lingo for quadrillion British thermal units)y.
The EIA also reports that total fossil fuel production in public areas oil, gas and coal has plunged to a nine-year low, to 18.6 quadrillion BTUs from 21.2 quadrillion in 2003.
"Why create a game for 1 quadrillion ants, when I could create a game for the earth's five trillion, trillion bacteria, " Meretzky exclaimed to hoots of laughter from his audience.
To get to a quadrillion you just at three more zeros and if you go up three each time, it only takes five more increments of three zeros to get you to a nonillion.
This would be like a pulsar, but with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the sun's, and about a thousand times stronger than the already massive fields that are inferred for ordinary pulsars.
Because each DNA molecule works like an individual computer, Adleman says for some problems, a DNA computer could do 100 quadrillion (1 followed by 17 zeros) operations in a single step while consuming almost no energy.
Market watchers say that, although the turmoil in Japan's markets will probably lessen, activity is likely to stay high particularly in the market most affected by the BOJ's easing measures: the nearly quadrillion-yen market for Japanese government bonds.
Market-watchers say that, although the turmoil in the Japan's markets will probably lessen, activity is likely to stay high particularly in the market most affected by the BOJ's easing measures: the nearly quadrillion-yen market for Japanese government bonds.
With regard to the availability of budgetary resources, if the U.S. economy continues its current unspectacular rate of growth and inflation remains subdued, then the nation will generate at least three quadrillion dollars in value through 2065.
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Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.
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TOKYO A week after Japan's central bank started a huge bond-buying campaign to drive down yields in the country's quadrillion-yen government-bond market, yields instead have risen, a sign of the huge headwinds the bank faces in its push to end 15 years of deflation.
There's the slick salesman who needs billions of dollars in capital and technical know-how from the outside in order to exploit a quadrillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves (50 years' U.S. consumption) and 300, 000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing Russia from the Baltic border east to Tomsk in Siberia and from Uzbekistan north toward the Arctic Circle.
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