High Performance Computing60 Years: From 1 to 1013 Flop/s
1949 1,000 1 KiloFLOPS BINAC
1964 1,000,000 1 MegaFLOPS CDC 6600
1987 1,000,000,000 1 GigaFLOPS NEC SX-2
1992 10,000,000,000 NEX SX-3
1993 100,000,000,000 TMC CM-5
1997 1,000,000,000,000 1 TeraFLOPS Intel ASCI Red
2000 ??? 10,000,000,000,000