First component: Nvidia Tesla C2050 capable of up to 1 teraflops. The first teraflop machine was built by Cray in 1995. By 1997 this was most cheaply achievable with a beowolf cluster at a cost of 30 000 USD per gigaflop.
FLOPS
[Wikipedia.com] In computing, FLOPS (or flops or flop/s) is an acronym meaning FLoating point OPerations per Second. The FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance. The first exaflops machines are being planned for 2018. In 2010 the fastest six-core processor PC has a theoretical peak performance of 107.55 GFLOPS (Intel Core i7 980 XE) in double precision calculations.
The current worlds fastest computer [China] :
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer uses 7,168 Fermi GPUs to churn through over 2.5 petaflops.
The current worlds fastest computer [China] :
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer uses 7,168 Fermi GPUs to churn through over 2.5 petaflops.
| yottaFLOPS | 1024 |
| zettaFLOPS | 1021 |
| exaFLOPS | 1018 |
| petaFLOPS | 1015 |
| teraFLOPS | 1012 |
| gigaFLOPS | 109 |
| megaFLOPS | 106 |
| kiloFLOPS | 103 |