Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

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|1945

|$130 × [[trillion|10¹²]]

|$2.{{Inflation|US|0.130|1945|fmt=c}} × [[quadrillion|10¹⁵]]

|[[ENIAC]]: {{US$|long=no|487000}} in 1945 and ${{Inflation|US|487000|1945|2022|fmt=c|r=-3}} in 2022.

|{{US$|long=no|487000}} / {{val|0.000000385|ul=GFLOPS}}. First-generation ([[vacuum tube]]-based) electronic digital computer.

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| 1984

| $20,000,000

| ${{Inflation|US|20000000|1984|r=-80|fmt=c}}

| [[Cray X-MP]]/48

| $15,000,000 / {{val|0.8|u=GFLOPS}}. Third-generation ([[integrated circuit]]-based) computer.

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| 1997

| $30,000

| ${{Inflation|US|30000|1997|r=-30|fmt=c}}

| Two 16-processor [[Beowulf (computing)|Beowulf]] clusters with [[Pentium Pro]] microprocessors<ref>{{cite web |url=http://loki-www.lanl.gov/papers/sc97/ |title=Loki and Hyglac |publisher=Loki-www.lanl.gov |date=July 13, 1997 |access-date=February 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721043504/http://loki-www.lanl.gov/papers/sc97/ |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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| {{sort|2000/04|April 2000}}

| $1,000

| ${{Inflation|US|1016|2000|r=-30|fmt=c}} <!-- $1000 in April 2000 had value $1016 in December 2000 using https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl, Inflation template only accepts years (end-of-year) -->

| [[Beowulf cluster|Bunyip Beowulf cluster]] <!-- old link bad as of 2013-05-18 http://tsg.anu.edu.au/Projects/Beowulf/ -->

| Bunyip was the first sub-{{val|p={{US$}}|1|upl=MFLOPS}} computing technology. It won the Gordon Bell Prize in 2000.

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| {{sort|2000/05|May 2000}}

| $640

| ${{Inflation|US|640|2000|r=-30|fmt=c}} <!-- $640 in May 2000 had value $649 in December 2000 using https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl, Inflation template only accepts years (end-of-year) -->

| [[Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed|KLAT2]]

| KLAT2 was the first computing technology which scaled to large applications while staying under {{val|p={{US$}}|1|up=MFLOPS}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aggregate.org/KLAT2/ |title=Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2 (KLAT2) |website=The Aggregate |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref>

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| {{sort|2003/08|August 2003}}

| $90

| ${{Inflation|US|90|2003|r=-20|fmt=c}}

| KASY0

| KASY0 was the first sub-{{val|p={{US$}}100|up=GFLOPS}} computing technology.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aggregate.org/KASY0/ |title=KASY0 |website=The Aggregate |date=August 22, 2003 |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref>

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| {{sort|2007/08|August 2007}}

| $50

| ${{Inflation|US|50|2007|r=-10|fmt=c}}

| Microwulf

| As of August 2007, this {{val|26|u=GFLOPS}} "personal" Beowulf cluster can be built for $1256.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/ |title=Microwulf: A Personal, Portable Beowulf Cluster |access-date=February 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912061302/http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/ |archive-date=September 12, 2007 }}</ref>