{"id":689,"date":"2008-06-09T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2008-06-09T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:51:24","slug":"exaflops-zettaflops-yottaflops-and-the-xeraflop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Exaflops, Zettaflops, Yottaflops and the Xeraflop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>72\u00a0 bar steady 29.65 1mph SSW dew-point 53\u00a0 Beltane, sunny and warm<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the language surprises even those of who try to keep up with technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/09\/technology\/09petaflops.html\">American military supercomputer<\/a>, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.<\/p>\n<p>The high-performance computing goal, known as a petaflop \u2014 one thousand trillion calculations per second \u2014 has long been viewed as a crucial milestone by military, technical and scientific organizations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><nyt_update_bottom><\/nyt_update_bottom><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72\u00a0 bar steady 29.65 1mph SSW dew-point 53\u00a0 Beltane, sunny and warm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon Sometimes the language surprises even those of who try to keep up with technological innovation. &#8220;An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exaflops, Zettaflops, Yottaflops and the Xeraflop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,40],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","category-news-of-the-strange","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}