DARPA circuit achieves speeds of 1 trillion cycles per second, earns Guinness world record

Officials from Guinness World Records today recognized DARPA’s Terahertz Electronics program for creating the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit ever measured. The ten-stage common-source amplifier operates at a speed of one terahertz (1012 GHz), or one trillion cycles per second—150 billion cycles faster than the existing world record of 850 gigahertz set in 2012.

“Terahertz circuits promise to open up new areas of research and unforeseen applications in the sub-millimeter-wave spectrum, in addition to bringing unprecedented performance to circuits operating at more conventional frequencies,” said Dev Palmer, DARPA program manager. “This breakthrough could lead to revolutionary technologies such as high-resolution security imaging systems, improved collision-avoidance radar, communications networks with many times the capacity of current systems and spectrometers that could detect potentially dangerous chemicals and explosives with much greater sensitivity.”

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ANOTHER BUNCH OF FLOPS

“June 2014. For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 43rdedition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”

33.86 Petaflops per second is 33,860 times faster than a mere 1 Teraflops per second. And this is 33.86 Petaflops on a real calculation as against a psuedo-calculation on the solid state amplifier.

mollwollfumble said:

“June 2014. For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 43rdedition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”

33.86 Petaflops per second is 33,860 times faster than a mere 1 Teraflops per second. And this is 33.86 Petaflops on a real calculation as against a psuedo-calculation on the solid state amplifier.

Is Petaflops per second a measure of acceleration?

mollwollfumble said:

“June 2014. For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 43rdedition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”

33.86 Petaflops per second is 33,860 times faster than a mere 1 Teraflops per second. And this is 33.86 Petaflops on a real calculation as against a psuedo-calculation on the solid state amplifier.

What?

You’re comparing apples tp elephants.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

“June 2014. For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 43rdedition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”

33.86 Petaflops per second is 33,860 times faster than a mere 1 Teraflops per second. And this is 33.86 Petaflops on a real calculation as against a psuedo-calculation on the solid state amplifier.

Is Petaflops per second a measure of acceleration?

Heh.. That’s twice you’ve made me laugh today

Dropbear said:

Heh.. That’s twice you’ve made me laugh today

Is this a record?

sibeen said:

mollwollfumble said:

“June 2014. For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 43rdedition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”

33.86 Petaflops per second is 33,860 times faster than a mere 1 Teraflops per second. And this is 33.86 Petaflops on a real calculation as against a psuedo-calculation on the solid state amplifier.

What?

You’re comparing apples to elephants.

Well, yes. Apples don’t do a very good job of lifting heavy weights.