MoneyBee®'s Computing Capacity

Almost half of our registered users are very regularly active for MoneyBee® . On average, they submit a data packet every 1.5 days (equivalent to a data contribution of approximately 8 computer hours). Approximately nine users contribute one task that is equivalent to two constantly runnings PC's. With 450 active users, this would be the equivalent capacity of 100 PC's.

A mainframe computer's capacity is measured in Teraflops (that is a million million floating point computing operations per second). The average PC manages approximately 0.0001 Teraflops, anything over 0.1 Teraflops is classed a mainframe computer, and the largest German mainframe computer manages approximately one whole Teraflop. In order to reach the capacity of a mainframe computer farm, MoneyBee® would require almost 4,500 active participants, or a total of approximately 10,000 members. The world's largest computer, IBM's "ASCI-White", is located in Livermore, California and can manage up to 12.3 Teraflops, which would amount to almost a million MoneyBee® users - that is almost half the number of users and the same capacity SETI@home reaches. "ASCI-White" costs over 100 million dollars.

MoneyBee® has already reached the required capacity for good forecasts - more users would allow us to include more values und simplify the analysis (i.e. then the forecasts would be better). The current number of users is displayed in the screensaver graphics (Lower right-hand Honeycomb, lowest info number, is updated with every task update), more precise analyses can be found on our Statistics Pages in the Member Area.

The computed capacity measured in Teraflops is only a technical indicator - MoneyBee® 's quality depends above all on how the submitted computer capacity is used. For this reason, constant development, especially of our central BienenStock® database is just as important as the growth of our user base, in order for MoneyBee® to become one of the most powerful forecast tools for stock prices.