BBC online needs more computational power

[jang]

Each person in the world with a handheld calculator would still take decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second.

Rather ambiguous, that. But I can understand how an innumerate "journalist" might think it would take "decades" for a single person to perform 40-50,000 floating-point additions or multiplications with the aid of a calculator. Even if you assume it talks about the population of the world who now possesses a calculator, I still think they could put in 280 trillion operations in under a year.

Comments

[invisigoth51.livejournal.com]

*points* I met you! *waves furiously*
I usually add everyone i meet in real life for more than a few seconds... but since all your entries look locked feel free to have a look at my journal before i do so, in case you don't want my boring waffle.

[syleth.livejournal.com]

I've read 6 of your top ten books, and I like the fact that you use the word innumerate quite often. Can I read the rest of your stuff?

[gedhrel.livejournal.com]

You can; be warned, it's not interesting.