Computer performance by orders of magnitude
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This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude.
10-1
Slowest single sentient computation [dubious – discuss]
- 5×10−1 Speed of the average human mental calculation for multiplication using symbols circa 2000 B.C. [citation needed]
100
Reality speed frame of computation
- 1 OP/S the speed of the average human addition calculation using symbols circa 2000 B.C. [citation needed]
- 1 OP/S the speed of Zuse Z1 first fully digital automated computer 1936
- 5 OP/S world record for human addition set
101
Faster than human mental reaction computation begins [citation needed]
- 2×101 Zuse Z3 1941
- 6×101 Upper end of serialized human perception computation (light bulbs in the US do not flicker to the human observer)
102
Faster than animal perception computation begins [citation needed]
- 1.2×102 Estimated serial perception processing for a double dorsal brain. [citation needed]
- 2×102 Upper end of serialized human through put. This is roughly expressed by the lower limit of accurate event placement on small scales of time (The swing of a conductors arm, the reaction time to lights on a drag strip etc.) [citation needed]
- 2×102 IBM 602 1946 computer.
103
Kilo scale computing
- 5×105 Colossus computer vacuum tube supercomputer 1943
- 9.2×105 Intel 4004 First commercially available full function CPU on a chip 1971
106
Mega scale computing
- 1×106 Motorola 68000 commercial computing 1979
- 1.2×106 IBM 7030 "Stretch" Vacuum tube supercomputer 1961
109
Giga scale computing
- 1×109 ILLIAC IV 1972 supercomputer does first computational fluid dynamics problems
- 1.354×109 Intel Pentium III commercial computing 1999
- 147.6×109 Intel Core-i7 980X Extreme Edition commercial computing 2010[1]
1012
Tera scale computing
- 1.34×1012 Intel ASCI Red 1997 Supercomputer
- 1.344×1012 GeForce GTX 480 from NVIDIA
- 4.64×1012 Radeon HD 5970 from ATI
- 5.152×1012 S2050/S2070 1U GPU Computing System from NVIDIA
- 100×1012 Estimated parallelized through put of the human brain [citation needed]
1015
Petascale computing
- 1.026×1015 IBM Roadrunner 2009 Supercomputer
- 4.3×1015 Fastest computer system as of 2009 Folding@home Cloud computing
- 20×1015 IBM Sequoia Circa 2011
1018
- 1×1018 Amount of processing power needed to simulate a rudimentary human brain from a electrochemical point of view. [citation needed] Estimated that the need for exascale computing will become pressing around 2018[2]
1021
Zetta scale computing
- 1×1021 Accurate global weather estimation on the scale of approximately 2 weeks[3]. Assuming Moore's law remains constant, such systems may be feasible around 2038.
A zettascale computer system could generate more single floating point data in one second than was stored by any digital means on Earth in first quarter 2011.
References
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- ^ DeBenedictis, Erik P. (2005). "Reversible logic for supercomputing". Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Computing frontiers. pp. 391–402. ISBN 1595930191.
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