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What will be the speed (in FLOPS) of the fastest supercomputer on record in the following years?

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60 forecasters

Make a Prediction

Yearresolution
Year25thmedian75th

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CDF

community
<4.4×10¹⁷
lower 25%
median
upper 75%
>4×10¹⁸
0.3%
1.2×10¹⁸
1.3×10¹⁸
1.6×10¹⁸
0.7%

What was the final result?1.2×10¹⁸

Community Baseline Score
65.5
Community Peer Score
16.9

Forecast Timeline

Authors:
RyanBeck
Opened:
Closes:
Scheduled resolution:
Forecasting Our World in Data
Computing and Math
Technology
2021-2025 Leaderboard
Our World in Data
China
Supercomputer
LINPACK benchmarks
Frontier (supercomputer)
Exascale computing
Performance analysis
FLOPS
Measurement

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