| Data Item | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floating-Point Operations per Second | 124,000,000,000.00 | 170,000,000,000.00 | 170,000,000,000.00 | 368,000,000,000.00 | 1,300,000,000,000.00 | 1,300,000,000,000.00 | 2,400,000,000,000.00 | 4,900,000,000,000.00 | 7,200,000,000,000.00 | 35,900,000,000,000.00 | 35,900,000,000,000.00 | 70,700,000,000,000.00 | 280,600,000,000,000.00 | 280,600,000,000,000.00 | 478,200,000,000,000.00 | 1,100,000,000,000,000.00 | 1,800,000,000,000,000.00 | 2,600,000,000,000,000.00 | 10,500,000,000,000,000.00 | 17,600,000,000,000,000.00 | 33,900,000,000,000,000.00 | 33,900,000,000,000,000.00 | 33,900,000,000,000,000.00 | 93,000,000,000,000,000.00 | 93,000,000,000,000,000.00 | 143,500,000,000,000,000.00 | 148,600,000,000,000,000.00 | 442,000,000,000,000,000.00 |
The growth of supercomputer power, measured as the number of floating-point operations carried out per second
(FLOPS) by the largest supercomputer in any given year.
Supercomputer power is measured in Floating-Point Operations per Second (FLOPS), a measure of calculations per second for floating-point operations. Floating-point operations are needed for very large or very small real numbers or computations that require a large dynamic range. It is, therefore, a more accurate measure of power than simply instructions per second.
Source: TOP500 Supercomputer Database