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Post by dayan on Sept 6, 2015 22:13:25 GMT -5
Exascale computing refers to supercomputers capable of at least one exaFLOPS (a billion billion calculations) per second. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008. (One exaflops is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 1018, floating point operations per second.) Exascale computing is considered as potentially the most significant achievement in computer engineering, for it is believed to be the order of processing power of the human brain at neural level (functional might be lower). It is for instance, the target power of the Human Brain Project. Currently the fastest systems in the world perform between 10 and 33 petaflops, or ten to 33 million billion calculations per second – roughly one to three percent the speed of exascale. Put into context, if exascale computing is the equivalent of an automobile reaching 1000 miles per hour, today’s fastest systems are running within a range between ten and 33 miles per hour. wtvox.com/emerging-tech/the-first-exascale-computer/ |
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Post by slayernz on Sept 6, 2015 22:33:14 GMT -5
This is a one Cataflop  It is an order of magnitude greater than the predecessor, the Cataflip  |
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Post by fallen on Sept 6, 2015 22:42:30 GMT -5
God their cute ... slayernz - I never thought to ask ... do you have ... a million cats? Do you own any cats? |
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Post by slayernz on Sept 6, 2015 22:45:48 GMT -5
I had 2 cats in New Zealand - had to leave them behind when I moved to Australia. Currently catless, however, I have befriended a neighbors cat, and she has claimed me as a surrogate owner.
I'm waiting to have some renovations done to my house before getting a cat of my own. Until then, I avoid the local cat shelters, because if I see a stray kitten, I'll have no choice but to bring it home.
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 6, 2015 22:53:28 GMT -5
slayernz, what about a cute little sheep. New Zealand produces some of the tastiest lamb I've ever eaten. Use to get these great leg of lamb at Sam's Club. Would roast them with steak seasoning and honey. They were to die for.
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Post by Cory Trese on Sept 6, 2015 22:53:38 GMT -5
I just told a neuroscientist about this and she laughed at me, said something about underestimating the complexity of each neuron by a few orders of magnitude and then went back to looking at pictures of brains.
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Post by fallen on Sept 6, 2015 22:58:10 GMT -5
I had 2 cats in New Zealand - had to leave them behind when I moved to Australia. Currently catless, however, I have befriended a neighbors cat, and she has claimed me as a surrogate owner. I'm waiting to have some renovations done to my house before getting a cat of my own. Until then, I avoid the local cat shelters, because if I see a stray kitten, I'll have no choice but to bring it home. Should I just send a baker's dozen kittens in a box?  Then you can make all your own cat pics! |
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Post by slayernz on Sept 6, 2015 23:04:47 GMT -5
Haha that would be awesome!!! my wife would be a little upset, because she wants the renovations done first - but if they are gift kittens, who can argue with that <grin>
When I did have cats, I took several thousand photos. Not many of the cats doing very very cute/odd things though. Maybe I didn't give them enough alcohol.
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Post by Cory Trese on Sept 6, 2015 23:19:08 GMT -5
I guess it all comes back to how you estimate the computational capacity of a neuron.
If you think of them in computer terms, you just count the neurons, count the states and compute a total capacity.
However, I don't think their is consensus among "team brain science" about the capacity of a neural cell -- and simply counting their current state might be a bit too much of applying computer science to the brain.
We don't fully understand the full scope of how dendrites and synaptic cells interface with the neurons. Neurons are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system, however their ultimate contribution to the raw processing power of the human brain may turn out to be a lot smaller than is commonly accepted today.
100 billion nerve cells. 100 trillion synapses. Dozens of chemical neurotransmitters. Microtubules uncounted ...
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Post by CdrPlatypus on Sept 7, 2015 1:33:23 GMT -5
If 1 catflop has enough power to produce 1 "kawaii desu" how many catflops to produce 1 season of shoujo anime?
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 7, 2015 10:04:53 GMT -5
If 1 catflop has enough power to produce 1 "kawaii desu" how many catflops to produce 1 season of shoujo anime? This was attempted back in the 70's. The computers gave back this result,  A second attempt was made in 2001, and this was the result,  Conclusion, computers were much better in the 70's. |
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Post by CdrPlatypus on Sept 7, 2015 22:56:48 GMT -5
ntsheep I think the problem is clear. The 2011 vs must have been processed on a hentai computer because the result is clearly ecchi and not kawaii. Perhaps if we could find a Stony Cat computer capable of producing sufficient catflops we could come up with a desirable result. I think catflops >= (n + 2) where n is equal to the number of episodes of the season. Is the min for a shoujo.
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Post by slayernz on Sept 7, 2015 23:01:46 GMT -5
I agree with you that hitting an exaflop is pretty darned impressive. In fact, comparing it to a human brain, it's funny because our brain is already discarding a large amount of input data that is fed into it in order to provide the real-time multifunctional capabilities that it does so well. The human brain is, however, wired differently to a CPU where data can travel along multiple paths and neurons can be used in different ways simultaneously. The brain is analogue whereas a computer is binary. I bet you that you wouldn't be able to install Windows on the Exaflop computer. Or if you did, you'd suddenly find your processing speed drops back to Megaflops!  However I looked into it a bit more I've decided that cat brains are better than any super-computer.  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Sept 8, 2015 10:51:36 GMT -5
Can you make a graphic showing the brain of a Cadar Captain?
Your flowchart was possibly the best social media post of 2015
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Post by slayernz on Sept 9, 2015 1:09:37 GMT -5
That Cadar Response flow chart was created back in 2011 or 2012 ... took a while to work its way up to the surface of silliness I have a bit on my plate right now - stoopid work, but will try and do something during my down time. That'll be October! Yikes, so far away. If there is another Cadar Enthusiast who can put something together, I won't say "stop" though |
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