“IBM claims that it’s achieved 339,484 operations per second on a 32-way, POWER4 Regatta on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark. Which is higher than a 72-way Sun Fire 15K. IBM also brags that its Regatta, kitted out 128GB of memory and 36.4GB storage will cost – at $2 million – half as much as a Sun Fire 15K with 288GB memory and 288GB storage.” Read the rest of the story at TheRegister.
So I guess this means my new AMD machine is outdated!!??
339,484 operations per second, doesn´t modern processors cope with several millions per second?
Or am I just the bum in the bush.
Yup
An operation (I think) is some form of large-scale database/server query/modification/result – not just a floating point or integer operation. Someone with much more knowledge than myself will be more than happy to correct me, I’m sure
My destkop has more than that! Do they mean 364GB?
My 512 processors are better than you one… now that would be awesome, a 512 processor box…