NSA building exaflop computer

[Anonymous]

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/04/is-national-security-agency-building.html

I wonder what hash rate that would provide 

[gusti]

That's not fair mining competition 

[FreeMoney]

Lol at spending a billion dollars on a computer and "having energy efficiency in mind".

[grue]

Lol at spending a billion dollars on a computer and "having energy efficiency in mind".

*energy efficiency

"3GFLOPS/watt"

[bitlotto]

Cool! I'd love having a computer like that, then on bitcoinwatch I could take up the whole pie chart for hash distribution.  Too bad it would be so expensive it would take forever to recover the cost.

[The Script]

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?

[SgtSpike]

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!

[LiquidMiner]

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:

The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds

[The Script]

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:

The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds

Hmmm, you are right. 

[SgtSpike]

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:

The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds

Hmmm, you are right.  

4 seconds...

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.