when will the home computer be as fast as this super computer
 

i wonder in what year are avg home computer will be fast as this http://news.softpedia.com/news/IBM-D...AR-39756.shtml

That article is 6 years old.

yes i know but thats the super computer that made me think of question

20 years, give or take

although, now that I think about it a bit, maybe never. If all the computation in the future is done in the cloud, it won't be necessary.

i have a feeling 20 years is about right.

Twenty years tops. The computers we use today are so far ahead of the ones NASA used to put people on the moon that it's hard to even know where to start a comparison.

"How fast do home computers need to be?"

-Random Internet poster, throughout Internet history.

Apparently very fast If you are into games


HD Radeon 5970:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...verview.aspx#2

Speeds & Feeds

• Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 294 Watts

HD Radeon 7970


http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...n-7970.aspx#/3

Up to 925MHz Engine Clock
3GB GDDR5 Memory
1375MHz Memory Clock (5.5Gbps GDDR5)
264GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
3.79 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
947 GFLOPS Double Precision compute power
In comparison though a high end i7 3960X @ stock for example pushes about 120 Gflops

Going by the numbers a modern High end Triple to Quad GPU setup gets you past the 12 Tflops (sp) of the linked system

Obviously pathetic by todays supercomputer standards though for example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_computer @ 10 PetaFLOPS http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/excited1.gif

As long as pr0n stays popular there will always be a need for faster computers :P

And a place for Dells. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3PmewuSb1w

I'd say that's more an arguement for a larger, higher resolution display and, maybe, greater storage sized drives.