Quote from: Vanquistador on June 20, 2011, 07:15:08 PM

Quote from: Synaptic on June 20, 2011, 07:08:17 PM

Quote from: becoin on June 20, 2011, 07:07:33 PM

Current network hashrate is 103915 teraflop/s while a single super computer is able to make 8.2 petaflop/s.

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Its a very impressive machine, Mr. Dongarra said. Its a lot more powerful than the other computers.

The latest ranking of the top 500 computers, to be released Monday, is determined by running a standard mathematical equation. The winning computer was able to make 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second, or in more technical terms, 8.2 petaflops per second.

The performance of K is equivalent to linking around one million desktop computers, Mr. Dongarra said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/technology/20computer.html

Yeah cause bitcoin is serious business to people besides us basement dwellers...

Be afraid everyone.

Until a basement dweller installs a bitcoin client on that computer and runs it for an hour. Bazinga-he now has tons of bitcoins.

Edit: And the difficulty gets automatically raised after he mines the X amount needed for the increase. heh

Well good for him. Maybe he can afford himself some self esteem with all that glittery website gold.