20 petaflops. Is the processing speed of Sequoia, the next IBM supercomputer. Let me write it again: 20 petaflops, as you read. Not only is the world's fastest processor, but more than a list of the top 500 ... combined. 20,000 trillion operations per second. If the figure does not sound enough for you, IBM has provided some tangible ways to understand the future ability of its Sequoia:
If each of the 6700 million people use a calculator on the planet simultaneously 24 hours a day and 365 days a year (without going to the bathroom), take 320 years to do what they do in an hour Sequoia.
-20 Petaflops improve 50 times the ability to predict earthquakes, their effects can calculate building to building.
-20 Petaflops improve 40 times the capacity to monitor and predict the weather. Weather events could be calculated in an area of between 100 meters and 1 kilometer, instead of the estimated 10 kilometers available.
Sequoia will have 1.6 million cores with specific 45-nanometer chips still developing, and 1.6 petabytes of memory. You need 96 refrigerators and 280 square feet of space. The supercomputer will be impressive in the hands of the government of USA and I prefer not to think about what kind of real education is to be used
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