We're faster on integer than they are, they're faster on floating point than we are.
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The Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops or thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
The K7 claims superior integer performance and even better floating point, with three floating-point units on board to the Pentium III's two.
The latest generation TI OMAP 4470 processor and Imagination SGX544 graphics engine capable of over 12 billion floating point operations per second.
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When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.
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The result: a virtual supercomputer capable of crunching 6 trillion floating point operations per second, or 6 teraflops, equivalent to one of the ten most powerful computers in the world.
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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Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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Last October the company unveiled a model that runs at 3.8 trillion floating-point operations a second.
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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AMD's processors have always done well in integer performance, which is important for common business tasks, but have lagged in floating-point performance, which counts most in elaborate financial models, engineering, and games.
It involves both understanding math and floating-point representation.
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The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge on Lake Washington, Washington had an 11-year run of bad luck.
"My release point is floating around a little bit, " he said.
Gazprom shares--or at least 49% of them--are about to become free-floating, at which point they will suddenly jumped from nil in the benchmark Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index to 10% of the weighting--the largest single component, likely to edge out even powerhouse Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung .
Earlier expectations for the yields on the floating debt were 0.20 point and 0.40 point over Libor.
Inside the ultraminimalist exterior lies a miraculous machine: The chassis hangs from a floating seismic platform with four-point spring suspension using a single piece of milled solid aluminum subassembly as its foundation.
And we have the Power Point Triangle of Death, where the speaker moves to the screen to point out some illegible word, drifts back to his computer, while mumbling something about the next slide, only to come to the third point of the triangle floating somewhere uneasily in between his screen position and his computer position.
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The Salisbury Bank can only be reached by boat and after the earlier opening harbourmaster Captain Charles Allister raised safety concerns, claiming fishermen had overloaded their boats with shellfish to the point where some were barely floating.
Earlier expectations for the yields on the floating debt were higher: 0.20 point and 0.40 point over Libor.
IR You rightly point out (Economics focus, January 29th) that the combination of a floating exchange-rate regime with a monetary framework based on explicit inflation targeting is becoming popular in emerging economies (as well as in industrial countries, you may also add).
They point to newly built sewage treatment plants, and sanitation workers who skim thousands of tons of floating rubbish off the reservoir each year.
It's at this point that the movie conjures its most surreal and outlandish episode, an alluring strange interlude on a floating island that doesn't quite catch the horror in the novel's description.
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