Top 500
The June Top 500 list usually comes out in, well, June, so I was surprised to find out that they actually released the list a few days ago. This is probably the most disappointing update so far. The number of FLOPS calculated by all 500 top computers in the world only increased by 16% these past six months. This is the slowest increase ever and well below the 36% biannual average. There are only about 140 new computers listed, in the past there were usually 200 to 300 new computers on each list.
The top computer remains Jaguar, although Nebulae, a Chinese made computer, debuted at number two. The current slowest computer would have been a top 10 computer back in 2005 and is faster than all 500 computers from June of 1998 combined.
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