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Title: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: Anonymous on April 27, 2011, 06:34:32 AM http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/04/is-national-security-agency-building.html (http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/04/is-national-security-agency-building.html)
I wonder what hash rate that would provide :D Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: gusti on April 27, 2011, 06:42:20 AM That's not fair mining competition ;D
Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: FreeMoney on April 27, 2011, 10:44:27 AM Lol at spending a billion dollars on a computer and "having energy efficiency in mind".
Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: grue on April 28, 2011, 12:41:41 AM Lol at spending a billion dollars on a computer and "having energy efficiency in mind". *energy efficiency"3GFLOPS/watt" Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: bitlotto on April 28, 2011, 01:17:32 AM Cool! I'd love having a computer like that, then on bitcoinwatch I could take up the whole pie chart for hash distribution. ;D Too bad it would be so expensive it would take forever to recover the cost.
Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: The Script on April 28, 2011, 08:58:34 AM I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right?
Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: SgtSpike on May 03, 2011, 04:33:13 PM I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right? So rent said supercomputer for $100/hr, and you've got it made!Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: LiquidMiner on May 03, 2011, 07:26:32 PM I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right? From gribble: Quote The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: The Script on May 03, 2011, 08:25:22 PM I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right? From gribble: Quote The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds Hmmm, you are right. Title: Re: NSA building exaflop computer Post by: SgtSpike on May 03, 2011, 09:49:08 PM I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right? From gribble: Quote The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds Hmmm, you are right. You'd basically corner the entire bitcoin generation market. EDIT: Once the difficulty stabilized around the new block generation, you would still be making about $600K/month off of it... though I doubt you could rent it for less than that. :P |