Statistics

Charts

We think the gigaflop workstation will have perhaps a 1000 times more impact on society than the teraflop supercomputer.

Ed McCracken, SGI

In November 1994, 6 systems appeared in the TOP500 list.

Rank	System	Procs	Memory(GB)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Vendor
8	CM-5/512	512	N/A	30.4	65.54	TMC
161	POWER CHALLENGE	16	N/A	3.624	4.8	SGI
347	SPP1000/XA-16	16	N/A	1.746	3.2	HP
411	CRAY-2s/4-128	4	N/A	1.406	1.952	Cray Inc.
454	Challenge	32	N/A	1.254	2.4	SGI
482	Y-MP4/464	4	N/A	1.159	1.333	Cray Inc.