According to the Kurzweil Newsletter, 'Chinese supercomputers maintained their No. 1 ranking on the 47th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers, announced today (June 20). The new Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer operates at 93 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) Rmax on the LINPACK benchmark - twice as fast and three times as efficient as China’s Tianhe-2 (at 33.86 petaflop/s), now in the #2 spot' - and illustrated left - and occupying rather a lot more floor space than the water cooled ICL 1900 series machine that I started out on.
I would be pleased to know how many high specification PCs you would need to clock up a petaflop. For where, for some reason, I associate to pétomane. Perhaps there is an IT person out there with a sense of humour.
Reference 1: https://www.top500.org/.
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