Is cost per Teraflop of supercomputing power going down?
Yes, the cost per Teraflop is going down. For a Type T it works out to a few million dollars per Teraflop. For a Type C machine it is more than that. A few years ago it was $10 million per Teraflop. I have a variation of Moore’s Law that the cost per Teraflop goes down by a factor of 2 every 2.5 years. The Earth Simulator gives Japan bragging rights, as it now owns the most powerful computer on the planet. How is the US reacting to this? The US is embarrassed that the fastest computer in the world is in Japan. Earth Simulator (ES) is a different kind of machine built using vector processors. It is a very highly connected machine. The ES caused people to rethink and reassess what is important in architecture. You will see things happen in the near future and bring things back into balance so that people can buy Type C supercomputers as well as Type T. There is a new DARPA project to build High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) that started on July 1, 2002. Five companies are involve
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