List of fastest computers

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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.

Year Country of site Site Vendor / builder Computer Performance[a] Ref.
1938  Germany 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  United Kingdom Bletchley Park Tommy Flowers and his team,
Post Office Research Station
Colossus 5.00 kIPS [4]
1945  United States 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  United States Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 7090 229.00 kIPS [8]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Remington Rand's UNIVAC LARC 250.00 kIPS [9]
1961  United States Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory IBM 7030 Stretch 1.20 MIPS [10]
1962  United Kingdom University of Manchester University of Manchester,
Ferranti International, and Plessey Co.
Atlas 1.00 MFLOPS [11]
1964  United States 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  United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Bracknell CDC Cyber 205 400.00 MFLOPS [16]
1983  United States National Security Agency Cray X-MP/4 713.00 MFLOPS* [17]
1985  United States Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Cray Cray-2 1.41 GFLOPS* [18]
1988 NASA Ames Research Center Y-MP/832 2.14 GFLOPS* [17]
1990  Japan Fuji Heavy Industries Fujitsu VP2600/10 4.00 GFLOPS* [19]
1992  Canada Atmospheric Environment Service NEC SX-3/44 20.00 GFLOPS* [20]
1993  United States Los Alamos National Laboratory Thinking Machines CM-5/1024 59.70 GFLOPS* [21]
 Japan National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel 124.20 GFLOPS* [22]
1994  United States Sandia National Laboratories Intel Paragon XP/S 140 143.40 GFLOPS* [23]
 Japan 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  United States 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  Japan JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center NEC Earth Simulator 35.86 TFLOPS* [28]
2004  United States Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM Blue Gene/L 70.72 TFLOPS* [29]
2005 136.80 TFLOPS*
280.60 TFLOPS*
2007 478.20 TFLOPS*
2008  United States 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  China National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin National University of Defense Technology Tianhe-1A 2.57 PFLOPS* [32]
2011  Japan RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Fujitsu K computer 10.51 PFLOPS* [33]
2012  United States Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) 16.32 PFLOPS* [34]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray Titan 17.59 PFLOPS* [35]
2013  China 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  United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory IBM Summit 122.30 PFLOPS* [38]
2019 148.60 PFLOPS* [39]
2020  Japan RIKEN Center for Computational Science Fujitsu Fugaku 415.53 PFLOPS* [40]
442.01 PFLOPS*
2022  United States 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]
2025 1.809 EFLOPS*

a. ^ Performance figures for computers prior to 1983 represent nominal operation rates or peak instruction throughput.
An asterisk (*) denotes Rmax – the highest sustained performance measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.

See also

References

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  23. "Intel XP/S 140 Paragon: Sandia National Labs". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/intel-xps-140-paragon-sandia-national-labs/. 
  24. "Hitachi SR2201: University of Tokyo". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/hitachi-sr2201-university-of-tokyo/. 
  25. "CP-PACS: University of Tsukuba". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/cp-pacs-university-of-tsukuba/. 
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  30. "Roadrunner: Los Alamos National Laboratory". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/roadrunner-los-alamos-national-laboratory/. 
  31. "Jaguar: Oak ridge National Laboratory". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/jaguar-oak-ridge-national-laboratory/. 
  32. "Tianhe-1A: National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/tianhe-1a-national-supercomputing-center-in-tianji/. 
  33. "K Computer: RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/k-computer-riken-advanced-institute-for-computatio/. 
  34. "Sequoia: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/sequoia-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/. 
  35. "Titan: Oak Ridge National Laboratory". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/titan-oak-ridge-national-laboratory/. 
  36. "Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) : National University of Defense Technology". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/tianhe-2-milkyway-2-national-university-of-defense/. 
  37. "Sunway TaihuLight: National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/sunway-taihulight-national-supercomputing-center-i/. 
  38. "Summit: DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory". https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/summit-doescoak-ridge-national-laboratory/. 
  39. "Summit - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband". https://www.top500.org/system/179397. 
  40. "Supercomputer Fugaku - Supercomputer Fugaku, A64FX 48C 2.2GHz, Tofu interconnect D". https://www.top500.org/system/179807/. 
  41. "Frontier - HPE Cray EX235a, AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz, AMD Instinct MI250X, Slingshot-11". https://top500.org/system/180047/. 
  42. "El Capitan - HPE Cray EX255a, AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz, AMD Instinct MI300A, Slingshot-11, TOSS". https://top500.org/system/180307/.