The Race to a Billion Billion Operations Per Second: An
Exaflop by 2018

Control Data Corp?s (CDC) first supercomputer, the CDC 6600, operated at a speed of three megaflops (106 floating-point operations per second).  A half century on, our most powerful supercomputers are a billion times faster. But even that impressive mark will inevitably fall. Engineers are eyeing an exaflop (1018 flops)?and some [...]

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