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Title: Is Bitcoin the biggest distributed computing project yet? Post by: JohnDoe on April 22, 2011, 10:45:23 PM So Wikipedia says that the computing power of Folding@Home is of ~7.87 petaFLOPS, while Bitcoin's power is at ~10.16 petaFLOPS, according to Bitcoin Watch. Any idea how accurate these numbers are?
Title: Re: Is Bitcoin the biggest distributed computing project yet? Post by: JohnDoe on April 22, 2011, 11:09:34 PM According to ArtForz (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4408.msg64596#msg64596):
Quote usually published FLOPS numbers are simply intops * 2 (one muladd counts as 2 operations). Not sure how reliable that is. Anyway, if the Bitcoin Watch number proves somewhat accurate we could use it along with the soon to come BTC/EUR parity for a press round on the usual places (Hacker News, Reddit) |