> Details of the calculation: 7200 seconds * 30fps * 12*16 (50*50 pixel chunks) > * > 500000 elementary arithmetic/logical operations in a pipeline (unrolled). > 7200*30*12*16*500000 = 20 trillion (20,000,000,000,000) processing units. > This is only a very rough estimate and does not consider all the issues.
could you do a similar calcuation for the memory bandwidth required to deliver said instructions to the processors? if you add that to the memory bandwith required to move the data around, what kind of memory architecture do you propose to move this much data around? - erik
