Re: Please listen to Ulrich here...
On 8 Aug 2013, at 10:41, David Lester wrote:
> The significance of the energy budget is
> that with today's cutting edge Intel hardware, you would need order $100 billion pa to pay the
> electricity bills.
Excuse me, I'm having a Dr Evil moment with my millions and billions…
… that should read ~ "$100 million pa"
I might also mention that the biggest user of super computers today is Google, and that their applications also do not make heavy use of FP. Instead they are primarily interested in Big Data Analytics.
Cheers,
Dave.