Super Raspberry
There's a list called TOP500 , indexing the 500 most powerful (known) computers. Obviously, the NSA's super secret computers aren't on the list. This list has been around for many years, released every June and November. Topping the list in June 2022 is the Frontier HPE CRAY EX235A. This absolute beast runs 8,730,112 AMD cores, rated at 1,685.65 PFlop/s. Let me rewrite that a few times: 1.6 Exaflots/second. 1685650Teraflops/s. 1685650000 Gigaflops/s. But I want to call your attention to an older version, published in July, 1997. That year's #500 was SX-4/4, built by NEC for the Houston Area Research Center in the USA. With it's 8GFlops/S, this nearly doubled November 1996's last place computer in the Goodyear Technical Center in Luxembourg, clocking in at 4.6GFLOPS. This is quite a bit slower than the créme-de-la-créme of 25 years later. It sure shows the march of progress....