Computer Speeds
v The 1951 UNIVAC I performed 100,000 additions per
second
v IBM’s Think Pad laptop does 500 million adds per
second, a factor-of-5000 over UNIVAC I
v Intel’s custom ASCI Red computer built for Sandia
National Labs holds the world record at 2.1 trillion
(floating point) additions per second
o ASCI Red is a factor-of-21,000,000
   times faster than UNIVAC I