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Since we are talking about going from 10 dollars a gigaflop to 25 cents a gigaflop render farms can afford to be smaller or they can afford to make them much more powerful for the same amount.

Early Buzz: 24 Minutes of James Cameron’s Avatar Screened | /Film 2009

As a measure of how far these machines have come, consider this: In the early 1990s, supercomputers cost about $1 million per gigaflop.

Japanes Computer Breaks Petaflop Barrier | Impact Lab 2006

Just a few short years ago, one gigaflop of processing power running in a Beowulf cluster setup would have run you about $30,000.

Supercomputing's Next Revolution Paul Tulloch 2006

Flop as in gigaflop, 1 million iPads sold on day 1.

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Next Big Future 2009

Llano will combine a DX11, gigaflop-capable, graphics core with a quad core processor on a single die.

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Germany's IBM QS22 supercomputer cluster is one of the world's most energy-efficient clusters, consuming about 2 Watts per gigaflop.

Khronos.org News 2009

One measure of the MDGrape-3’s ultra-efficient computing muscle is its cost per gigaflop (1 billion floating-point calculations per second), which Riken puts at $15.

Japanes Computer Breaks Petaflop Barrier | Impact Lab 2006

By comparison, BlueGene/L’s is $140 per gigaflop and the Earth Simulator’s $8,000.

Japanes Computer Breaks Petaflop Barrier | Impact Lab 2006