University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
CCR
Center for
Computational Research
Fastest Computers
40,960
5120
NEC E.S.
2002
12,288
8192
IBM ASCI-W
2000
131
1024
TMC CM-5
1992
3072
6144
SGI ASCI-BM
1999
28
8192
TMC CM-2
1989
1830
9152
Intel ASCI-R
1997
2.7
8
Cray Y-MP
1989
368
2048
Hitachi SR2
1996
2
4
Cray 2
1986
236
140
Fujitsu VPP
1994
0.9
4
Cray X-MP
1982
152
1024
Cray T3D
1993
0.1
1
Cray 1
1976
GFlops
Procs
Mach
Year
GFlops
Procs
Mach
Year
A
1-year calc in 1980 = 5.4 sec today
A ~1990
HPC = a laptop today