I see mine says: 1165.64 million ops/sec

So, that means I'm doing 1.16 giga FLOPS? Thats wild! How do they measure FLOPS for supercomputers. Cause I thought the Cray II only did 1 GFLOP? Is there a good benchmarking program out there to give you a good FLOP estimate?

And is 1.165 GFLOPS good for a laptop 1.4ghz Pentium M?

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> I see mine says: 1165.64 million ops/sec

Mine is 1301 Double precision, 1766 integer ... so, you are in the same ballpark

> So, that means I'm doing 1.16 giga FLOPS? Thats wild! How do they measure
> FLOPS for supercomputers. Cause I thought the Cray II only did 1 GFLOP? Is
> there a good benchmarking program out there to give you a good FLOP estimate?

Well, there has been a good deal of discussion as to what Giga means ...

As far as benchmarking goes, the short answer is NO. There are lies, darn lies, and benchmarks.

> And is 1.165 GFLOPS good for a laptop 1.4ghz Pentium M?

3.9 would be better don't you think? :)

But it sounds ok to me, for what that is worth.

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Sorry to chime in after a day and change, but gigaflops are now at the consumer level. Apple had a huge ad campaign when the G4 towers came out - Something on the order of "the Pentagon has declared the G4 a weapon because it can process a billion instructions a second. Pentiums are still harmless."

Your numbers are fine.

Keep crunching. :-)

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> Sorry to chime in after a day and change, but gigaflops are now at the
> consumer level. Apple had a huge ad campaign when the G4 towers came out -
> Something on the order of "the Pentagon has declared the G4 a weapon because
> it can process a billion instructions a second. Pentiums are still
> harmless."
>
> Your numbers are fine.
>
> Keep crunching. :-)
>
<B>disclaimer:
This message brought to you by the same people worried about 1000 PS2s. /dsclaimer</B>

If you had the brains to make a worthwhile cluster out of them, you'd just build your own chips, it would work better. As a side note, all of todays chips are operating in the microwave S-band (typical microwave oven operates at 2450MHz). Over 4GHz it will be the into the C-band. I'm not sure why I found that interesting, or why I wasted your time with it.

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Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.

>Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.

How about "never fry bacon naked"?

> >Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.
>
> How about "never fry bacon naked"?
>

Oh ouch...I just shrivled up thinking about THAT idea...

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

> If you had the brains to make a worthwhile cluster out of them, you'd just
> build your own chips, it would work better. As a side note, all of todays
> chips are operating in the microwave S-band (typical microwave oven operates
> at 2450MHz). Over 4GHz it will be the into the C-band. I'm not sure why I
> found that interesting, or why I wasted your time with it.

Well, how about this? My microwave opens up the automatic Dog door in my kitchen ...

:)

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