Diapositive PPT
- already announced by IBM :
- Blue Gene (about $100 mio over next 5 years )
- 500 times faster than current supercomputers
(probably world‘s first Peta Flop supercomputer)
- simulation of the natural biological process by which
amino acids fold themselves into proteins
- 1 mio cpu‘s / 6 feet tall / 1,600 square feet of floor space
- need 1 year to perform protein-folding simulation
compared with less than1 second used by human body
- extrapolation of cpu speed-up :
- today‘s $100 mio supercomputers are the widely
affordable workstation of choice within 1 or 2 decades
- reaching physical limits of today‘s chip technology
not later than 2020
- totally different technologies needed for further speedup