List of fastest computers
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.
Year | Country of site | Site | Vendor / builder | Computer | Performance[a] | R | |
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1938 | ![]() |
Personal research and development Berlin, Germany |
Konrad Zuse | Z1 | 1.00 | IPS | [1] |
1940 | Z2 | 1.25 | IPS | [2] | |||
1941 | Z3 | 20.00 | IPS | [3] | |||
1944 | ![]() |
Bletchley Park | Tommy Flowers and his team, Post Office Research Station |
Colossus | 5.00 | kIPS | [4] |
1945 | ![]() |
University of Pennsylvania | Moore School of Electrical Engineering | ENIAC | 5.00 | kIPS | [5] |
1951 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory | Whirlwind I | 20.00 | kIPS | [6] | |
1958 | McGuire Air Force Base | IBM | AN/FSQ-7 | 75.00 | kIPS | [7] | |
1960 | ![]() |
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | 7090 | 229.00 | kIPS | [8] | |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Remington Rand's UNIVAC | LARC | 250.00 | kIPS | [9] | ||
1961 | ![]() |
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | IBM | 7030 Stretch | 1.20 | MIPS | [10] |
1962 | ![]() |
University of Manchester | University of Manchester, Ferranti International, and Plessey Co. |
Atlas | 1.00 | MFLOPS | [11] |
1964 | ![]() |
Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos | CDC | 6600 | 3.00 | MFLOPS | [12] |
1969 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 7600 | 36.00 | MFLOPS | [13] | ||
1974 | STAR-100 | 100.00 | MFLOPS | [14] | |||
1976 | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | Cray | Cray-1 | 160.00 | MFLOPS | [15] | |
1980 | ![]() |
Meteorological Office, Bracknell | CDC | Cyber 205 | 400.00 | MFLOPS | [16] |
1983 | ![]() |
National Security Agency | Cray | X-MP/4 | 713.00 | MFLOPS* | [17] |
1985 | ![]() |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Cray | Cray-2 | 1.41 | GFLOPS* | [18] |
1988 | NASA Ames Research Center | Y-MP/832 | 2.14 | GFLOPS* | [17] | ||
1990 | ![]() |
Fuji Heavy Industries | Fujitsu | VP2600/10 | 4.00 | GFLOPS* | [19] |
1992 | ![]() |
Atmospheric Environment Service | NEC | SX-3/44 | 20.00 | GFLOPS* | [20] |
1993 | ![]() |
Los Alamos National Laboratory | Thinking Machines | CM-5/1024 | 59.70 | GFLOPS* | [21] |
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National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan | Fujitsu | Numerical Wind Tunnel | 124.20 | GFLOPS* | [22] | |
1994 | ![]() |
Sandia National Laboratories | Intel | Paragon XP/S 140 | 143.40 | GFLOPS* | [23] |
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National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan | Fujitsu | Numerical Wind Tunnel | 170.00 | GFLOPS* | [22] | |
1996 | University of Tokyo | Hitachi | SR2201 | 232.40 | GFLOPS* | [24] | |
University of Tsukuba | CP-PACS | 368.20 | GFLOPS* | [25] | |||
1997 | ![]() |
Sandia National Laboratories | Intel | ASCI Red | 1.06 | TFLOPS* | [26] |
2000 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | IBM | ASCI White | 4.93 | TFLOPS* | [27] | |
2001 | 7.20 | TFLOPS* | |||||
2002 | ![]() |
JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center | NEC | Earth Simulator | 35.86 | TFLOPS* | [28] |
2004 | ![]() |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | IBM | Blue Gene/L | 70.72 | TFLOPS* | [29] |
2005 | 136.80 | TFLOPS* | |||||
280.60 | TFLOPS* | ||||||
2007 | 478.20 | TFLOPS* | |||||
2008 | ![]() |
Los Alamos National Laboratory | IBM | Roadrunner | 1.02 | PFLOPS* | [30] |
1.10 | PFLOPS* | ||||||
2009 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Cray | Jaguar | 1.75 | PFLOPS* | [31] | |
2010 | ![]() |
National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin | National University of Defense Technology | Tianhe-1A | 2.57 | PFLOPS* | [32] |
2011 | ![]() |
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science | Fujitsu | K computer | 10.51 | PFLOPS* | [33] |
2012 | ![]() |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | IBM | Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) | 16.32 | PFLOPS* | [34] |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Cray | Titan | 17.59 | PFLOPS* | [35] | ||
2013 | ![]() |
National Supercomputing Center of Guangzhou | National University of Defense Technology | Tianhe-2 | 33.86 | PFLOPS* | [36] |
2016 | National Supercomputing Center of Wuxi | NRCPC | Sunway TaihuLight | 93.01 | PFLOPS* | [37] | |
2018 | ![]() |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | IBM | Summit | 122.30 | PFLOPS* | [38] |
2019 | 148.60 | PFLOPS* | [39] | ||||
2020 | ![]() |
RIKEN Center for Computational Science | Fujitsu | Fugaku | 415.53 | PFLOPS* | [40] |
442.01 | PFLOPS* | ||||||
2022 | ![]() |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | HPE Cray | Frontier | 1.102 | EFLOPS* | [41] |
2023 | 1.194 | EFLOPS* | |||||
2024 | 1.206 | EFLOPS* | |||||
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | El Capitan | 1.742 | EFLOPS* | [42] |
a. ^ An asterisk (*) denotes Rmax – the highest score measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.
See also
- History of supercomputing
- Timeline of instructions per second (IPS)
- TOP500 § Systems ranked No. 1 since 1976 (FLOPS)
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- ^ a b "Numerical Wind Tunnel: National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Intel XP/S 140 Paragon: Sandia National Labs". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Hitachi SR2201: University of Tokyo". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "CP-PACS: University of Tsukuba". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "ASCI Red: Sandia National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "ASCI White: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "The Earth Simulator: Earth Simulator Center". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "BlueGene/L: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Roadrunner: Los Alamos National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Jaguar: Oak ridge National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Tianhe-1A: National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "K Computer: RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Sequoia: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Titan: Oak Ridge National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) : National University of Defense Technology". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Sunway TaihuLight: National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Summit: DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Summit - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
- ^ "Supercomputer Fugaku - Supercomputer Fugaku, A64FX 48C 2.2GHz, Tofu interconnect D". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "Frontier - HPE Cray EX235a, AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz, AMD Instinct MI250X, Slingshot-11". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "El Capitan - HPE Cray EX255a, AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz, AMD Instinct MI300A, Slingshot-11, TOSS". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2024-11-19.