In 2000 the first supercomputer passed 4 teraflops, or 4 trillion calculations per second. By June 2007, the fastest supercomputer - IBM's BlueGene, with 131,072 processors - achieved speeds of 280.6 teraflops.
Growth in total performance of all top 500 supercomputer systems in past few years is as follows:
06-2007 4.92 petaflops (or 1,000 teraflops, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second)
11-2006 3.54 petaflops
06-2006 2.79 petaflops
It is apparent that computing power is not what we currently miss to create intelligence...
