How many petaflops does the fastest supercomputer run at?

Technology brutal Data from 2024

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Answer in petaflops. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

1,700 petaflops

Roughly 1.7K.

The fastest supercomputer runs at roughly 1,700 petaflops — 1.7 quintillion calculations per second. If every person on Earth did one calculation per second, it would take humanity about seven years to do what it does in one.

Where this number comes from

Source TOP500 supercomputer rankings
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit petaflops

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