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. 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