This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.

Year Country of site Site Vendor / builder Computer Performance 1938 Personal research and developmentBerlin, Germany Konrad Zuse Z1 1 IPS 1940 Z2 1.25 IPS 1941 Z3 20 IPS 1944 Bletchley Park Tommy Flowers and his team,Post Office Research Station Colossus 5 kIPS 1945 University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering ENIAC 5 kIPS 1951 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory Whirlwind I 20 kIPS 1958 McGuire Air Force Base IBM AN/FSQ-7 75 kIPS 1960 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 7090 229 kIPS Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Remington Rand's UNIVAC LARC 250 kIPS 1961 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory IBM 7030 Stretch 1.2 MIPS 1962 University of Manchester University of Manchester,Ferranti International, and Plessey Co. Atlas 1 FLOPS 1964 Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos CDC 6600 3 MFLOPS 1969 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7600 36 MFLOPS 1974 STAR-100 100 MFLOPS LARGE COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NEW ARCHITECTURES, T. Bloch, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1978 1976 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Cray Cray-1 160 MFLOPS 1980 Meteorological Office, Bracknell CDC Cyber 205 400 MFLOPS 1983 National Security Agency Cray X-MP/4 713 MFLOPS* 1985 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Cray Cray-2 1.41 FLOPS* 1988 NASA Ames Research Center Y-MP/832 2.14 GFLOPS* 1990 Fuji Heavy Industries Fujitsu VP2600/10 4 GFLOPS* 1992 Atmospheric Environment Service NEC SX-3/44 20 GFLOPS* 1993 Los Alamos National Laboratory Thinking Machines CM-5/1024 59.7 GFLOPS* National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel 124.2 GFLOPS* 1994 Sandia National Laboratories Intel Paragon XP/S 140 143.4 GFLOPS* National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel 170 GFLOPS* 1996 University of Tokyo Hitachi SR2201 232.4 GFLOPS* University of Tsukuba CP-PACS 368.2 GFLOPS* 1997 Sandia National Laboratories Intel ASCI Red 1.06 FLOPS* 2000 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM ASCI White 4.93 TFLOPS* 2001 7.2 TFLOPS* 2002 JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center NEC Earth Simulator 35.86 TFLOPS* 2004 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM Blue Gene/L 70.72 TFLOPS* 2005 136.8 TFLOPS* 280.6 TFLOPS* 2007 478.2 TFLOPS* 2008 Los Alamos National Laboratory IBM Roadrunner 1.02 FLOPS* 1.1 PFLOPS* 2009 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray Jaguar 1.75 PFLOPS* 2010 National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin National University of Defense Technology Tianhe-1A 2.57 PFLOPS* 2011 RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Fujitsu K computer 10.51 PFLOPS* 2012 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) 16.32 PFLOPS* Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray Titan 17.59 PFLOPS* 2013 National Supercomputing Center of Guangzhou National University of Defense Technology Tianhe-2 33.86 PFLOPS* 2016 National Supercomputing Center of Wuxi NRCPC Sunway TaihuLight 93.01 PFLOPS* 2018 Oak Ridge National Laboratory IBM Summit 122.3 PFLOPS* 2019 148.6 PFLOPS* 2020 RIKEN Center for Computational Science Fujitsu Fugaku 415.53 PFLOPS* 442.01 PFLOPS* 2022 Oak Ridge National Laboratory HPE Cray Frontier 1.102 FLOPS* 2023 1.194 EFLOPS* 2024 1.206 EFLOPS* Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory El Capitan 1.742 EFLOPS* 2025 1.809 EFLOPS* 2026 National Supercomputing Centre, Shenzhen Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center LineShine 2.198 EFLOPS* a. Performance figures for computers prior to 1983 represent nominal operation rates or peak instruction throughput.An asterisk (*) denotes Rmaxthe highest sustained performance measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.

See also History of supercomputing List of the top supercomputers in the United States Timeline of instructions per second (IPS) TOP500 § Systems ranked No. 1 (FLOPS)

References

Computer Speeds From Instruction Mixes (pre-1960 to 1971) TOP500 #1 systems since 1993 – TOP500.org