The answer is probably one of the AMD overclocked processors; they have a bunch of people that go crazy with cooling solutions and crank the clock up: http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Breaks-Frequency-Record-with-Upcoming-FX-Pro... Not that this is ready for your home office or anything like that. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
As you may know, the fastest computer is currently a japanese machine called K, which can do 10 petaflops (?) or something like that. These machines are made with ordinary components at the base like Intel processors or Opteron + many GPU like Nvidia.
This is all very impressive but I am wondering, what is the fastest single operation computer on this planet ? A souped-up Intel machine running overclocked at 4 ghz ? Is there somebody that knows the answer to that question ?
In other words, if someone wants to run let's say the Mersenne test for a prime which is not yet implemented in parallel then on which machine would that algorithm run the fastest ?
Best regards and ha ve a nice evening.
Simon Plouffe
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