| Supercomputer is defined as a system's ability to perform one billion operations per second, also called a gigaflop. |
| They broke the gigaflop barrier in 1991 with Grape3, and speed increases have continued since. |
| One looked especially juicy, compressed to just under a gigaflop and backed up in three separate locations. |
| By that time, a gigaflop 'supercomputer' will be a single chip. |
| The system includes six two gigaflop processors, 10 gigabytes of memory, one terrabyte of raided disk storage and high density tape subsystems. |
| Since Cray Y-MP8 can hit two and a half billion flops, it is considered to be gigaflop supercomputer. |
