TIL that the "cost per GFLOPS" (the cost for a computer that would operate at one billion floating-point operations per second) in 1961 was of $1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion), while nowadays it is of merely $0.08.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs



Submitted April 10, 2015 at 03:56PM by sprremix http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/323tmw/til_that_the_cost_per_gflops_the_cost_for_a/