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Topic
Board Mining
Re: Top500 Supercomputers
by
Vladimir
on 26/05/2011, 23:12:05 UTC

http://www.top500.org/

#1 Tianhe-1A ; Rpeak = 4701 Tflops
http://www.top500.org/system/performance/10587

#2 Cray "Jaguar";  Rpeak = 2331 Tflops
http://www.top500.org/system/performance/10184

Combined total of Top500 supercomputers is 43673 Tflops
http://www.top500.org/lists/2010/11/performance_development

#0 Bitcoin Grid GPU/CPU ; Rpeak = untested, estimate 15106 Tflops
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/



Tianhe-1A hashing power, very accurately IMO has been estimated as 850 Ghps. Assuming the rest of top 500 supercomputers have the same TFLOPS/Ghps ratio than bitcoin needs to hit 8Thps to dwarf all top 500 supercomputers combined. We are more than halfway there already. Another difficulty increase or two and 50% attack with supercomputers would require all those babies in top 500 list combined. Moreover while they configure them to do something bitcoin network would double once more.