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2024
- World's Fastest Supercomputer
2024-11-01
El Capitan supercomputer · 1.742 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
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2022
2022-06-26
Solar Park of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture · 8,430 MW · Gonghe County, Qinghai, China
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2022-06-01
Frontier supercomputer · 1.102 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
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2020
2020-06-01
Fugaku supercomputer · 415.53 PFLOPS (petaflops) · RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Kobe, Japan
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2019
2019-01-01
Changji-Guquan ±1,100 kV UHVDC Transmission Project · ±1,100 kV · China (Changji, Xinjiang to Xuancheng, Anhui)
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2018
2018-06-01
Summit supercomputer · 122.3 PFLOPS (petaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
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2016
2016-01-01
FAST · 500 m · Guizhou Province, China
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2012
2012-07-01
Three Gorges Power Station · 22,500 MW MW · Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
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2008
2008-09-10
Large Hadron Collider · 27 km kilometres · Near Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border, about 100 m underground
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2007
2007-01-01
Airbus A380 · over 850 seats seats (all-economy certified max)
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Time not specified
LSST Camera · 3,200 megapixels · NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Cerro Pachón, Chile
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NICT-led International Research Team · 450 Tb/s · London, United Kingdom
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