there's not much in the way of Pentium or Athlon specs measured in gigaFlops, but here are some Supercomputers to give you an idea.
The dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 processors with a combined performance of 15 billion floating point operations per second, or
15 gigaflops.
Some comparisons:
Computer 1:
The system is configured as one front-end system and 64 compute nodes.
Each of the 65 nodes in the system has:
Motherboard with Intel 440LX chipset and 300 MHz Pentium II processor
128 MByte 10-ns SDRAM memory
3.1 GByte Quantum EIDE U-DMA disk
100 Mbit/s ethernet adapter
The machine has an aggregate peak performance of
19.5 GigaFlops.
Computer 2:
Granovsky ran a version of the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS) ab initio quantum chemistry program on an eight-processor Itanium-based server cluster at NCSA. Performance on an eight-processor Itanium cluster was more than
12 gigaflops.
Computer 3:
The Halo World project will use a Beowulf system to analyze N-body simulation data. This system consists of 59 Intel Pentium-Pro processors (200 MHz clock) for an aggregate system peak performance of
11.8 gigaflops, 7.5 gigabytes of main memory, and 182 gigabytes of internal secondary storage.
Computer 4:
Seattle's Cray Inc. said it provided an SV1 supercomputer to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) - the Huntsville, Ala.-based hub for American space and national missile defense operations.
SMDC will use the SV1 to run complex simulations in support of its national defense initiatives, according to a release. The 16-processor, Unix-based SV1 system will later be upgraded with SV1ex processors, each with a peak performance of two billion calculations per second (gigaflops). At a total of
32 gigaflops, the system will command several thousand times the computing power of a personal computer equipped with a single Intel Pentium 4 processor.
