This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
<div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 1.2em;"> a. <span style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top;">Performance figures for computers prior to 1983 represent nominal operation rates or peak instruction throughput.<br />An asterisk (*) denotes R<sub>max</sub>the highest sustained performance measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.</span> </div>