{"id":12054,"date":"2010-12-03T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2010-12-03T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T20:47:38","slug":"the-incredible-growth-of-supercomputing-performance-1995-%e2%80%93-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/12\/03\/the-incredible-growth-of-supercomputing-performance-1995-%e2%80%93-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible growth of supercomputing performance, 1995 \u2013 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><!-- span .FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text { padding: 3px 2px 2px; font-size: 9px; } --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-8058\">\n<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to The incredible growth of supercomputing performance, 1995 \u2013 2010\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2010\/12\/02\/incredible-growth-supercomputing-performance-1995-2010\/\">The incredible growth of supercomputing performance, 1995 \u2013 2010<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Royal Pingdom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Computer hardware has become infinitely more powerful through the  years, a trend that has allowed computer makers to push the performance  to levels we almost thought were impossible just a decade earlier. The exponential growth of computing performance is very noticeable  when you examine how the performance of the world\u2019s most powerful  computer systems, the supercomputers, has changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nHere is the performance of the fastest supercomputer in the world, the past 15 years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top in 2010:<\/strong> 2.57 petaflops<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top in 2005:<\/strong> 280.6 teraflops<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top in 2000:<\/strong> 4.94 teraflops<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top in 1995:<\/strong> 170 gigaflops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we set the fastest supercomputer in <strong>1995<\/strong> as the baseline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top supercomputer in 2000 was <strong>19 times faster<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The top supercomputer in 2005 was <strong>1,650 times faster<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The top supercomputer in 2010 was <strong>15,100 times faster<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or, illustrated with a chart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Supercomputing performance over the past 15 years\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5241\/5226888544_0fdb239e4e_o.png\" alt=\"Supercomputing performance over the past 15 years\" width=\"580\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also see:<a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2010\/12\/rewriting-moores-law-with-faster.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<strong>Rewriting Moores Law with faster improvement in computer speed using IBM silicon photonics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incredible growth of supercomputing performance, 1995 \u2013 2010 &#8212; from Royal Pingdom Computer hardware has become infinitely more powerful through the years, a trend that has allowed computer makers to push the performance to levels we almost thought were impossible just a decade earlier. The exponential growth of computing performance is very noticeable when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,45,206],"tags":[614,591,676],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-computer-science","category-trends","tag-change","tag-computer-science","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12080,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}