List of fastest computers

Template:Short description 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
1938	Germany	Personal research and development Berlin, Germany	Konrad Zuse	Z1	1.00	IPS
1940				Z2	1.25	IPS
1941				Z3	20.00	IPS
1944		Bletchley Park	Tommy Flowers and his team, Post Office Research Station	Colossus	5.00	kIPS
1945	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Moore School of Electrical Engineering	ENIAC	5.00	kIPS
1951		Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory	Whirlwind I	20.00	kIPS
1958		McGuire Air Force Base	IBM	AN/FSQ-7	75.00	kIPS
1960	United States	Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory		7090	229.00	kIPS
		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Remington Rand's UNIVAC	LARC	250.00	kIPS
1961	United States	Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory	IBM	7030 Stretch	1.20	MIPS
1962		University of Manchester	University of Manchester, Ferranti International, and Plessey Co.	Atlas	1.00	MFLOPS
1964		Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos	CDC	6600	3.00	MFLOPS
1969		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		7600	36.00	MFLOPS
1974				STAR-100	100.00	MFLOPS
1976		Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory	Cray	Cray-1	160.00	MFLOPS
1980		Meteorological Office, Bracknell	CDC	Cyber 205	400.00	MFLOPS
1983		National Security Agency	Cray	X-MP/4	713.00	MFLOPS*
1985		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Cray	Cray-2	1.41	GFLOPS*
1988		NASA Ames Research Center		Y-MP/832	2.14	GFLOPS*
1990		Fuji Heavy Industries	Fujitsu	VP2600/10	4.00	GFLOPS*
1992		Atmospheric Environment Service	NEC	SX-3/44	20.00	GFLOPS*
1993		Los Alamos National Laboratory	Thinking Machines	CM-5/1024	59.70	GFLOPS*
		National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan	Fujitsu	Numerical Wind Tunnel	124.20	GFLOPS*
1994		Sandia National Laboratories	Intel	Paragon XP/S 140	143.40	GFLOPS*
		National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan	Fujitsu	Numerical Wind Tunnel	170.00	GFLOPS*
1996		University of Tokyo	Hitachi	SR2201	232.40	GFLOPS*
		University of Tsukuba		CP-PACS	368.20	GFLOPS*
1997		Sandia National Laboratories	Intel	ASCI Red	1.06	TFLOPS*
2000		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	IBM	ASCI White	4.93	TFLOPS*
2001					7.20	TFLOPS*
2002		JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center	NEC	Earth Simulator	35.86	TFLOPS*
2004		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	IBM	Blue Gene/L	70.72	TFLOPS*
2005					136.80	TFLOPS*
					280.60	TFLOPS*
2007					478.20	TFLOPS*
2008		Los Alamos National Laboratory	IBM	Roadrunner	1.02	PFLOPS*
					1.10	PFLOPS*
2009		Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Cray	Jaguar	1.75	PFLOPS*
2010		National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin	National University of Defense Technology	Tianhe-1A	2.57	PFLOPS*
2011		RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science	Fujitsu	K computer	10.51	PFLOPS*
2012		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	IBM	Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q)	16.32	PFLOPS*
		Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Cray	Titan	17.59	PFLOPS*
2013		National Supercomputing Center of Guangzhou	National University of Defense Technology	Tianhe-2	33.86	PFLOPS*
2016		National Supercomputing Center of Wuxi	NRCPC	Sunway TaihuLight	93.01	PFLOPS*
2018		Oak Ridge National Laboratory	IBM	Summit	122.30	PFLOPS*
2019					148.60	PFLOPS*
2020		RIKEN Center for Computational Science	Fujitsu	Fugaku	415.53	PFLOPS*
					442.01	PFLOPS*
2022		Oak Ridge National Laboratory	HPE Cray	Frontier	1.102	EFLOPS*
2023					1.194	EFLOPS*
2024					1.206	EFLOPS*
		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		El Capitan	1.742	EFLOPS*

a. ^{^} An asterisk (*) denotes RmaxTemplate:Sndthe 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)

References

• Computer Speeds From Instruction Mixes (pre-1960 to 1971)
• TOP500 #1 systems since 1993 – TOP500.org