Name: E Buchler
Date: Around 1995
How fast is the fastest computer?
Well, I just got a note in the mail that a computer at Sandia National Lab
in New Mexico (an Intel Paragon parallel computer with nearly 2000 proces-
sors) just beat the old record for speed on a standard linear algebra
benchmark, doing over 140 billion floating point operations per second. So,
I guess that is an answer... For non-parallel machines the fastest speed I
think is around 1 billion "FLOPS", and that record is held either by an NEC
supercomputer or by something from Cray.
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