You will never call your $1000-$1500 computer fast enough when you will come to know about some of the fastest computers in the world.
The fastest computers today are thousands times faster than our home computers. They can do trillion and trillions of calculations in just a second.
Currently (as of 2019), IBM has developed the world’s fastest supercomputer named Summit or OLCF-4 and its capacity is 200 petaFLOPS. Summit is being used at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States).
Here, I am listing out all the world’s fastest supercomputers with the year, company and country name.
So, here we go…
Fastest Computers of the World
| Computer | Year | Company | Country |
| Z1 | 1938 | Zuse | Germany |
| Z3 | 1941 | Zuse | Germany |
| ENIAC | 1946 | UPenn | United States |
| Whirlwind I | 1951 | MIT | United States |
| AN/FSQ-7 | 1958 | IBM | United States |
| 7090 | 1960 | IBM | United States |
| LARC | 1960 | UNIVAC | United States |
| 7030 Stretch | 1961 | IBM | United States |
| Atlas | 1962 | Manchester computers | United Kingdom |
| 6600 | 1964 | CDC | United States |
| 7600 | 1969 | CDC | United States |
| STAR-100 | 1974 | CDC | United States |
| Cray-1 | 1976 | Cray | United States |
| X-MP/4 | 1983 | Cray | United States |
| Cray-2 | 1985 | Cray | United States |
| Y-MP/832 | 1988 | Cray | United States |
| VP2600/10 | 1990 | Fujitsu | Japan |
| SX-3/44 | 1992 | NEC | Japan |
| CM-5/1024 | 1993 | Thinking Machines | United States |
| Numerical Wind Tunnel | 1993 | Fujitsu | Japan |
| Paragon XP/S 140 | 1994 | Intel | United States |
| Numerical Wind Tunnel | 1994 | Fujitsu | Japan |
| SR2201 | 1996 | Hitachi | Japan |
| CP-PACS | 1996 | Hitachi | Japan |
| ASCI Red | 1997 | Intel | United States |
| ASCI White | 2000 | IBM | United States |
| ASCI White | 2001 | IBM | United States |
| Earth Simulator | 2002 | NEC | Japan |
| Blue Gene/L | 2004 | IBM | United States |
| Blue Gene/L | 2005 | IBM | United States |
| Blue Gene/L | 2007 | IBM | United States |
| Roadrunner | 2008 | IBM | United States |
| Jaguar | 2009 | Cray | United States |
| Tianhe-1A | 2010 | NUDT | China |
| K computer | 2011 | Fujitsu | Japan |
| Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) | 2012 | IBM | United States |
| Titan | 2012 | Cray | United States |
| Tianhe-2 | 2013 | NUDT | China |
| Sunway TaihuLight | 2016 | NRCPC | China |
| Summit | 2018 | IBM | United States |
| Summit | 2019 | IBM | United States |
That’s it.
Also Read: 70+ Deadliest Computer Viruses [List]
Final Words
Supercomputers, which have been developed after 2017, are now, able to perform hundred quadrillion FLOPS (petaFLOPS or PFLOPS).
And, almost all the world’s fastest computers run Linux operating system.
—
Share the article with the people who you think might be interested in reading it.
Also, if you have a related query, feel free to let me know in the comments right now.
Leave a Reply