Science & Infrastructure1993–2026
Fastest Supercomputers
Measured LINPACK performance (Rmax) of the world's fastest supercomputers, from each June TOP500 list. The race spans eight orders of magnitude in three decades: 59.7 gigaflops in 1993 to 1.74 exaflops today, with the crown ricocheting between US national labs, Japan and China along the way.
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Source: TOP500.org June lists, yearly. Machines enter at their debut Rmax rather than growing in; November debuts appear at the following June keyframe. Updated 2026-07-03
The race in numbers
19lead changes
33years covered
27contenders
Earth Simulatorlongest reign — 3 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2026
- 1El Capitan1.74 EFLOPS
- 2Frontier1.35 EFLOPS
- 3Aurora1.01 EFLOPS
- 4JUPITER Booster793 PFLOPS
- 5Fugaku442 PFLOPS