Temporal development of floating point operations per second (FLOPS) of super computers,
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS) is a unit which describes the speed of a computer system or a micro processor und referes to the number of floating point operations (additions or multiplications) that can be executed per second (Wikipedia).
Source:
- www.top500.org
- http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ccn/salishan2003/pdf/seager.pdf
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/platforms/bluegene/agenda.html - http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=50900052
- http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2002/comp-soft-math/redstorm.html
- Singularity.com
Note: this data make no claim to be complete but should give a brief overview of semiconductor industries development.