Figure 5

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 http://top500.org 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.