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Top500 list: a brief introduction

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It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. Over the years, the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputers have reached teraFLOPS (10 12 FLOPS) in 1997 and petaFLOPS (10 15 FLOPS) in 2008, and the next milestone is exaFLOPS (10 18 FLOPS).

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