This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes
computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as C ...
s and
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
s which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
a. An asterisk (*) denotes ''Rmax''the highest score measured using the
LINPACK benchmarks
The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system's floating-point computing power. Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense ''n'' by ''n'' system of linear equations ''Ax'' = ''b'', which is a common ...
suite.
See also
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History of supercomputing
The term supercomputing arose in the late 1920s in the United States in response to the IBM tabulators at Columbia University. The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is sometimes considered the first supercomputer. However, some earlier computers were c ...
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Timeline of instructions per second (IPS)
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TOP500 § Systems ranked No. 1 since 1976 (FLOPS)
References
Computer Speeds From Instruction Mixes (pre-1960 to 1971)TOP500 #1 systems since 1993 – TOP500.org{{Refend
History of computing hardware
Fastest computers
Fastest computers