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This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
An SX-5 on display at the Australian Technology Park. NEC SX describes a series of vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC.This computer series is notable for providing the first computer to exceed 1 gigaflop, [1] [2] as well as the fastest supercomputer in the world between 1992–1993, and 2002–2004. [3]
The computer is an exaflop computer, but was not submitted to the TOP500 list; the first exaflop machine submitted to the TOP500 list was Frontier. Analysts suspected that the reason the NSCQ did not submit what would otherwise have been the world's first exascale supercomputer was to avoid inflaming political sentiments and fears within the ...
The clock rate of the first generation of computers was measured in hertz or kilohertz (kHz), the first personal computers from the 1970s through the 1980s had clock rates measured in megahertz (MHz). In the 21st century the speed of modern CPUs is commonly advertised in gigahertz (GHz).
The Singularity Is Near – book by Raymond Kurzweil dealing with the progression and projections of development of computer capabilities, including beyond human levels of performance; TOP500 – list of the 500 most powerful (non-distributed) computer systems in the world
When the SWAC was completed in August 1950, [4] it was the fastest computer in the world. It continued to hold that status until the IAS computer was completed a year later. It could add two numbers and store the result in 64 microseconds. A similar multiplication took 384 microseconds.
In both November 2009 and June 2010, TOP500, the semiannual list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, named Jaguar as the world's fastest computer. In late October 2010, the BBC reported that the Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-1A had taken over the top spot, achieving over 2.5 quadrillion calculations per second , thereby bumping Jaguar to ...
Santos Dumont is a Brazilian supercomputer that in 2022 ranked 178th on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest computers. It is housed in the state of Rio de Janeiro, at the base of the National Laboratory of Scientific Computation (LNCC) in Petrópolis. [1] It has a capacity of 5.1 petaflops.