Floating point operations per second: Difference between revisions

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|1945

|$1,.264,935,064,935[[trillion|T]]

|${{Inflation|US|12649350649351.264|1945|r=3|fmt=c}}T

|[[ENIAC]]: {{US$|long=no|487000}} in 1945 and ${{Inflation|US|487000|1945|fmt=c|r=-3}} in 2023.

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

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| 1961

| $18,.672,000,000[[billion|B]]

| ${{Inflation|US|1867200000018.672|1961|r=03|fmt=c}}B

| 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.