I think you lost a few zeros! A petaflop is 1000 trillion floating point operations per second = 1 with fifteen zeros after it. A good normal computer now operates in the gigaflop range = 1 (or a bit more) with 9 zeros after it. If the fastest computer was 10 gigaflops (1 with 10 zeros after it), then a one petaflop machine would be the equivalent of 100,000 normal computers. In fact normal machines are not quite as fast as 10 gigaflops and this machine is faster than one petaflop. So this computer is faster than more than 100,000 normal computers, not just 1000 normal computers!
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I think you lost a few zeros! A petaflop is 1000 trillion floating point operations per second = 1 with fifteen zeros after it. A good normal computer now operates in the gigaflop range = 1 (or a bit more) with 9 zeros after it. If the fastest computer was 10 gigaflops (1 with 10 zeros after it), then a one petaflop machine would be the equivalent of 100,000 normal computers. In fact normal machines are not quite as fast as 10 gigaflops and this machine is faster than one petaflop. So this computer is faster than more than 100,000 normal computers, not just 1000 normal computers!
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