Fastest general-purpose supercomputers
1 M
10 M
100 M
1 G
10 G
100 G
1 T
10 T
100 T
1 P
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
P
eak
sp
eed
[Flops]
Year
100 k
Figure 7: Peak speed for record-holders for fastest general-purpose supercomputers from 1960
til 2007.
The code for figure
set terminal fig size 10 8 metric monochrome textspecial
set output "plot/superdator.fig"
set title "Fastest general-purpose supercomputers"
set xlabel "Year"
set ylabel "Peak speed [Flops]" offset character -1
set logscale y
10
set grid
# Remove legend:
unset key
set ytics ("100 k" 100e3, "1 M" 1e6, "10 M" 10e6, "100 M" 100e6, "1 G" 1e9, \
"10 G" 10e9, "100 G" 100e9, "1 T" 1e12, "10 T" 10e12, "100 T" 100e12, "1 P" 1e15)
set xrange [1960:2010]
set yrange [100e3:1e15]
plot
"data/superdator.dat" axes x1y1 with linespoints 1 5
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