Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "Al Jazeera English" channel.

  1. Good question. Using an Nvidia GTX 780 (4 teraflops) as minimum for 60 FPS, the NUDT Tianhe-2 (33.86 petaflops) could render 33.86e15 / 4e12 * 60 = 507,900 FPS. Given that there must be a margin for complex scenes, i feel comfortable saying you'd get over 9000 times 60 FPS.
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  2. That supercomputer uses ((24e6 / 0.08) / 365) / 24 = 34,246.57 kW. Indeed deserving of its own power plant, as that's about as much as Somalia uses: 300,000 MWh (1080 TJ) per year.
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  3. Just like any popular cult, the Buddhist religion split up into many different sects, some of which not banning political violence.
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