The world’s most powerful supercomputer pushes 8.162 petaflops

Hey guys. I can see 8.162 petaflops is a big deal, but can somebody put it into perspective the power of this supercomputer i.e maybe compare it to say Dual Core or do i have the wrong idea here.
 
sigh.. would need a week and few trucks to help take such a pc to the Lan
 
8,162,000,000,000,000 calculations per second is nothing. {insert this weeks' Chuck Norris-style meme name here} could do that many with just half his brain.
 
Not surprised load shedding has been reintroduced ;)
 
Are these theoretical of actual flops? They have more than half a milltion core and my i5 computer, according to the CPU meter, hardly ever use its 4 cores to the max, or even in a halfway decent manner.
 
Is it just me or does it seem like the supercomputer race has just become an exercise of who can put the most number of CPUs to work together. In the old days I was under the impression that building super computers was more about the overall architecture and design of every little part of it and the whole thing was custom designed, but these days they just put a whole bunch of stock standard intel CPU together and if you have enough of them (and big enough budget) you have the biggest super computer. So the guy with the biggest budget wins.
 
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