Gridcoin computing power is increasing!
7 Month ago
About seven months ago I wrote that Gridcoin would be ranked 60th on the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers by computing power. You can find this post here.
At that time, the team Gridcoin had a RAC of 333,037,098.50127 which corresponds to approximately 1665 TeraFLOPS.
Today
Meanwhile, the Gridcoin team has developed a RAC of 1,050,809,718.49334. This is more than three times as much as 7 months ago! A tremendous increase, in my opinion.
1,050,809,718.49334 RAC / 200,000 RAC/TeraFLOP = 5254.04859 TeraFLOPS
With this computing power, Gridcoin would land on 22nd place in the list of the world's fastest supercomputers, replacing the computer named JUQUEEN from Germany.
This computer has 458,752 cores and has a computing power of 5,008.9 TeraFLOP.
As we can see from these numbers, Gridcoin does indeed have the opportunity to actively support research. In this sense: Keep on crunching!
So how far do we need to go for number one?
Number one has currently 93000 Teraflops so this will need some time ;)
oh nice !
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JUQUEEN... Oh Germany smh
Yes I just saw yesterday that the daily production numbers are now consistently over 1 billion credits so its no suprise the RAC is adjusting accordingly.
Please keep in mind two things , boinc credits are kind of sketchy in certain projects, such as universe@home, where some work units are 4x as bigger as others, but they all award 666 credit, second, the computer rank is done using sintectic test, the maximun possible throughput. judging this, it may even be possible that Gridcoin is in the top
I know the measurement isn't perfect. But the best we can get :)
how robust is that 200,000 RAC/TeraFLOP estimation? any references to cite?
That's a good question. I took the number from here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Computation_credit.
But I can't tell you how accurate this estimate is.
This information is worth actively promoting. I can only imagine that as we continue to climb relative to the power of the top supercomputers - that both Gridcoin and the larger BOINC network would receive a massive influx of interest.