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by Jtsummers 4468 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Histo...

Another fun one. At 8 Teraflops it makes it equivalent to the top supercomputer of 2000. So our desktops (in terms of raw computing capability) are only about 14 years behind supercomputers, and that gap is closing rapidly.