Table of Supercomputers (1961 to 2009)

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Table 1 shows a list of the world's supercomputers from 1961 to 2009. It was in 1961 that the first supercomputer capable of doing a million floating point operations per second (megaflops) came out.

Year	Supercomputer	Maximum Speed	Location
1961	IBM 7030 "Stretch"	1.2 MegaFLOPS	AEC-Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
1964	CDC 6600	3 MegaFLOPS	AEC-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
1969	CDC 7600	36 MegaFLOPS
1974	CDC STAR-100	100 MegaFLOPS
1975	Burroughs ILLIAC IV	150 MegaFLOPS	NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA
1976	Cray-1	250 MegaFLOPS	Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA (80+ sold worldwide)
1981	CDC Cyber 205	400 MegaFLOPS	(numerous sites worldwide)
1983	Cray X-MP/4	941 MegaFLOPS	U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Battelle; Boeing
1984	M-13	2.4 GigaFLOPS	Scientific Research Institute of Computer Complexes, Moscow
1985	Cray-2/8	3.9 GigaFLOPS	DoE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
1989	ETA10-G/8	10.3 GigaFLOPS	Florida State University, Florida, USA
1990	NEC SX-3/44R	23.2 GigaFLOPS	NEC Fuchu Plant, Fuchu, Japan
1993	Thinking Machines CM-5/1024	59.7 GigaFLOPS	DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory; National Security Agency
	Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel	124.50 GigaFLOPS	National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
	Intel Paragon XP/S 140	143.40 GigaFLOPS	DoE-Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
1994	Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel	170.40 GigaFLOPS	National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
1996	Hitachi SR2201/1024	220.4 GigaFLOPS	University of Tokyo, Japan
1996	Hitachi/Tsukuba CP-PACS/2048	368.2 GigaFLOPS	Center for Computational Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
1997	Intel ASCI Red/9152	1.338 TeraFLOPS	DoE-Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
1999	Intel ASCI Red/9632	2.3796 TeraFLOPS	DoE-Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
2000	IBM ASCI White	7.226 TeraFLOPS	DoE-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
2002	NEC Earth Simulator	35.86 TeraFLOPS	Earth Simulator Center, Yokohama, Japan
2004	IBM Blue Gene/L	70.72 TeraFLOPS	DoE/IBM Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2005		136.8 TeraFLOPS	DoE/U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
2005		280.6 TeraFLOPS
2007		478.2 TeraFLOPS
2008	IBM Roadrunner	1.026 PetaFLOPS	DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
2008	IBM Roadrunner	1.105 PetaFLOPS	DoE-Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Note: gigaflops = 1 billion flops; teraflops = 1 trillion flops or 1 million million flops; petaflops = 1 million billion flops