Monday, February 09, 2015
70 years later
- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1952.
- "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
15 February 1946 ENIAC 300 Flops
2016 supercomputer Cori 30 PFlops
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: That is 10exp14 times more processing power. In year 2019 10exp15 times ! ENIAC have had equivalent of 175 000 switches, based on digital switching formalism Shannon introduced in 1938.