From: turin (turin@hell.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 00:27:20 MDT
EOT;
--- russell.wallace@gmail.com wrote:
From: "Russell Wallace" <russell.wallace@gmail.com>
To: sl4@sl4.org
Subject: Re: BLUE GENE and confusion about flops and tops and whistles
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 04:08:10 +0100
On 4/1/06, turin <turin@hell.com> wrote:
>
> Excuse me, let me be more clear. I am not looking for a lesson in
> mathematics. I am in fact asking a question for SL4. I want to know why
> Russell Wallace said the CNS does 1-15 exaflops. I want to know his source
> or reasoning behind the claim. Compared to everything else I have read it
> seems very liberal.
>
Asking for the reasoning behind my claim is appropriate. 10^11 neurons, 10^4
connections per neuron = 10^15 connections, 10^3 Hz (commonly cited 200 Hz,
but it will turn out somewhat higher once you take in all the nuances, it
always does) = 10^18 ops, basic op is a multiply-add, and that doesn't take
into account the fact that it's actually more complex than that, the
connection modification (learning) dynamics (we don't really know how those
work yet), or all the other stuff we don't know about yet; 10^19 flops seems
reasonably conservative.
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Why do you say 1000 and not 200 Hz, I thought the neuron could only fire 200 times a second, and I thought that is where the Hz came from
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