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| Keywords: Supercomputing-rmax-graph.png Supercomputing-rmax-graph2 svg Plot of the fastest computer over time The two curves represent the two measures OPS and FLOPS which have been used to quantify supercomputer speed these are approximately the same but not quite First and Third columns of data taken from en wikipedia com/wiki/Supercomputer and put into file sc Removed UPenn ENIAC entry Used python 2 6 code as follows I make no excuses for readability/general quality <source lang python > /usr/bin/python fid open sc lastThing 1066 lineno -1 sizedic O 1 k 1e3 M 1e6 G 1e9 T 1e12 P 1e15 X1 Y1 X2 Y2 for line in fid lineno+ 1 if lineno 0 continue x line split \t a x0 y x1 split \xc2\xa0 if len y 2 y x1 split b y0 c y1 try a float a lastThing a except pass b float b d sizedicc strip 0 print lastThing b x d if c strip endswith FLOPS X1 append lastThing Y1 append b d else X2 append lastThing Y2 append b d import matplotlib pyplot as plt plt semilogy X1 Y1 plt semilogy X2 Y2 plt legend FLOPS OPS upper left plt xlabel Year plt ylabel Rmax </source> own 2010-08-21 Lucaswilkins Created with Matplotlib cc-zero History of computing | ||||
