Twice a year, specialists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee publish the Top 500, which offers a list of the most productive supercomputers in the world. The key criterion in this rating is a characteristic that has long been considered one of the most objective in assessing the power of supercomputers – flops, or the number of floating-point operations per second. Cray CS-Storm Location: USA Performance: 3.57 petaflops Theoretical maximum performan...