The computing speed of future computers

According to the prediction of American experts, a new generation of supercomputers is likely to come out next year, with floating-point operations as high as 65,438+0,000 trillion times per second, which is about twice as fast as the "Blue Gene /L" computer located in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The supercomputing power of this gigabit supercomputer is likely to accelerate various scientific research methods and promote major scientific discoveries.

According to a report by Washington post on the 3rd, the computing power of a gigabit computer is equivalent to the sum of more than 10,000 desktop computers. It takes about five hours to complete an operation that takes a lifetime on an ordinary personal computer, and only two hours if a gigabit computer is used.

In the new generation of supercomputers, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer jointly built by IBM and the US Department of Energy in Los Alamos National Laboratory is the most promising one to be completed first. The power consumption of this computer is as high as 4 million watts, which is enough to light 1 10,000 light bulbs.