[cdhostage]

RC5's current performance: flop performance not given
SETI's current performance: 27.56 teraflops
Blue Gene's projected performance: 200 teraflops
ASCI White's current performance: 12 teraflops
Specs found at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/22756.html and http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/ and http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/totals.html .

Why doesn't distributed.net attempt to give a flop # for its crunchers?

Are the supercomputers specialized (i.e., only give that performance at certain tasks)?

Has SETI been faster before?

[Scotttheking]

From SETI's page.
"We recently reached the ZettaFLOP (10^21 floating-point operations) mark - a world record!"

[SkiBikeSki]

I think the reason that they don't provide any FLOP/s is that the client does use the FPU. I think I read somewhere on the FAQ that it actually ran a little slower witht the FPU, than with just standard CPU intructions. And now they even use stuff like MMX, SSE, and Alti-Vec.

[SkiBikeSki]

The SETI Totals page now reads almost 100 TeraFLOPs/sec