Topic: Cool Stuff To Think About
Tom4Uhere's photo
Tue 03/23/21 11:42 PM
Here's a bit of info you might find enlightening.

Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it's been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X.

plural noun: teraflops
~ a unit of computing speed equal to one million, million (1012) floating-point operations per second.
trillion gigabytes

A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as: A quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating point operations per second (FLOPS) A thousand teraflops. 10 to the 15th power FLOPS. 2 to the 50th power FLOPS.

In computing, floating point operations per second is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases it is a more accurate measure than measuring instructions per second.

A zettabyte is a measure of storage capacity, which equals 1000⁷ (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). One zettabyte is equal to a thousand exabytes, a billion terabytes, or a trillion gigabytes.

Consider this:
A true AI which has reached singularity would likely exceed the zettabyte scale in a matter of hours.

A brontobyte is a measure of memory or data storage that is equal to 10 to the 27th power of bytes. There are approximately 1,024 yottabytes in a brontobyte.

One brontobyte is equal to one quadrillion terabytes. And a brontobyte is smaller than a geopbyte. A thousand brontobytes equal to one geopbyte. And there are one thousand yottabytes in a brontobyte.

It would probably exceed the brontobyte scale in a few days to a week. However, it would probably have a more condensed processing and storage system than mankind could imagine. Imagine a zettabyte of data on an area the size of the head of a paneling nail.
In circumventing the need for electronics it could have no problems with heat. It would also have lightning fast room-temperature super conductors and if the scaling goes nano, It would soon possess unlimeted computing power. Likely faster than nerve signal induction and the speed of light.

The world's most powerful supercomputer today is Summit, built by IBM for the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It occupies the equivalent of two basketball courts and achieves an impressive 148.6 petaflops thanks to its 2.41 million cores.

The human brain is estimated to operate at about 1 exaflop (that's 1,000 petaflops).

Quantum computers (Spooky Computers) are based on faster than light information exchange. To us, the exchange of info happens instantly over distance.
Remember, the speed of light is limited by mass. Electricity is movement of an electron through a conductor. The shortest distance between two points is zero in a theoretical wormhole. If the distance is zero there is no delay at all.

A qubit (or quantum bit) is the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical bit. In classical computing the information is encoded in bits, where each bit can have the value zero or one.

Google announced it has a quantum computer that is 100 million times faster than any classical computer in its lab.

In a quantum computer, each qubit influences the other qubits around it, working together to arrive at a solution. Superposition and entanglement are what give quantum computers the ability to process so much more information so much faster.

A quantum internet would be able to transmit large volumes of data across immense distances at a rate that exceeds the speed of light. Nearly $625 million in federal funding is expected to be allocated to the project.

Companies focused on quantum computing

Atom Computing. Atom Computing is a quantum computing hardware company specializing in neutral atom quantum computers. ...
Xanadu. ...
IBM. ...
ColdQuanta. ...
Zapata Computing. ...
Azure Quantum. ...
D-Wave. ...
Strangeworks.

LarchTree's photo
Wed 03/24/21 01:01 PM
The world is an amazing place.