Performance distribution of the “Top500” supercomputers. This histogram shows the floating-point performance distribution of the “Top500” fastest supercomputers, given in terms of representative commodity laptops. The data used were taken from the list published in November 2013 at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://top500.org">http://top500.org</a> and compared to the results obtained by running the same LINPACK benchmark [60] on a commodity laptop (Core i7-2720QM, 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM). Simple division of the real-world performance yielded the estimated performance as multiples of the commodity laptop.
Wilkinson S, Almeida J
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-176">Image file</a> from <cite style="font-style:normal">Wilkinson S, Almeida J (2014). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4063228">QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers</a>". <i>BMC Bioinformatics</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-176">10.1186/1471-2105-15-176</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID" class="extiw" title="w:PMID">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24913605">24913605</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central" class="extiw" title="w:PubMed Central">PMC</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4063228">4063228</a>.</cite>