We certainly could build a supercomputer with its own dedicated nuclear power plant. My guess is that we won’t. So as long as we use CMOS transistors for computation there is a maximum supercomputer we will build. And that will happen in roughly 10 years.
Perhaps the Singularity Isn’t Near
November 7th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: commentary
What is the Singularity?
September 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Many people scoff and have problems even understanding the Singularity. With credit to Charlie Stross the singularity is defined as a specific 13 year period from 2047 through 2060. Here is a chart of the computational speed of the fastest computer in the world, as measured in floating point operations per second. You can see [...]
Tags: commentary