Top 500
Six months after the first PetaFLOPS computer debuted on the on the Top 500 supercomputer's list, another appears, Jaguar, although slightly slower, so Roadrunner remains the fastest computer in the world. With an overall increase of total FLOPS of nearly 45%, nearly half of the computers on the list are new. Generally there's a slow down immediately after a new computer takes the top spot, but the introduction of Jaguar seems to have kept the pace moving.
One random tidbit, the slowest computer currently on the list, would have been in the top 10 as late as November 2004 and is more powerful than all 500 supercomputers from November 1996 combined.
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