Computer Speeds

• The 1951 UNIVAC I performed 100,000 additions per second

• IBM’s Think Pad laptop does 500 million adds per second, a factor-of-5000 over UNIVAC I

• Intel’s custom ASCI Red computer built for Sandia National Labs holds the world record at 2.1 trillion (floating point) additions per second

  • ASCI Red is a factor-of-21,000,000
    times faster than UNIVAC I

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