Not really. A modem can certainly count how many bytes you sent or received. "Theres nothing like an odometer to measure..." Yes there is. Right there on my screen there's a little icon of two computers talking. It tells me that in the last 30 days I've sent 45 gigabytes and received 89 gigabytes.
On my laptop that total is reset every time I reconnect to my network, and that's quite often. On top of that, that's traffic through my network, which includes big backups. There's no information about traffic to and from the internet there.
I'm not aware of a simple way to determine how much traffic has passed through my ADSL modem from the internet.
An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers — the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia — currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second. Exaflop computers would perform a million trillion calculations per second.
The idea behind the institute — under consideration for a year and a half prior to its opening — is "to close critical gaps between theoretical peak performance and actual performance on current supercomputers," says Sandia project lead Sudip Dosanjh. "We believe this can be done by developing novel and innovative computer architectures."
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