Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

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|1945

|$130 × [[trillion|10¹²]]

|$2.0 × [[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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| 1961

| $20 billion,000,000,000

| ${{Inflation|US|2020000000000|1961|r=0|fmt=c}} billion

| A basic installation of [[IBM 7030 Stretch]] had a cost at the time of {{US$|7.78 million}} each.

| The [[IBM 7030 Stretch]] performs one floating-point multiply every {{val|2.4 |ul=microseconds}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/IBM.7030.Stretch.dir/ |title=The IBM 7030 (STRETCH) |publisher=Norman Hardy |access-date=February 24, 2017}}</ref> Second-generation ([[Transistor computer|transistor]]-based) computer.