Comment Re:"Just 5%"??????? (Score 1) 67
Now lets asks how much power this computer will need? Lets say it can do a billion flops per watt. 100 petaflops is 100,000 trillion flops. A trillion flops is 1000 billion flops so a trillion flops is 1000 watts at a billion per watt. So 100,000 trillion flops would 100 million watts. So lets hope they can do at least 50 billion flops per watt so that would mean 20 watts per trillion flops or 2 million watts. At 10 billion flops per watt would mean 5 times that or 10 million watts. Now lets assume they could do the computing for 1,000,000 users at a time instead of those 1,000,000 user using 1,000,000 computers. Now lets assume that each of those 1,000,000 user's computers used only 100 watts so the 1,000,000 users would use 100 million watts. If evenly divided 100 petaflops would still mean 100 billion flops per user. Now lets say each computer cost only $500 or times a million would mean 500 million dollars. I would hope that this supercomputer would cost less than that. So I am saying that this supercomputer should cost far less than a equal number of personal computers and run at a small fraction of their power requirements. I have looked at the power requirements of a 19 inch monitor and they use about $4 a year so even 1,000,000 of them would not add to much to the power requirements. So 100 companies with only 10,000 computers each could build one of these and save money.