Not sure if it's still the world's fastest (too lazy to conduct further research) however as of June 2020 the most powerful supercomputer in the world is Japan's Fugaku with a processing speed of 415.5 petaflops. This basically means it can perform the following quantity of floating point calculations per second ... hopefully I've got my number of zeros right!
415,500,000,000,000,000
Mainly used for computational scientific tasks that require extremely intensive processing e.g. molecular modeling, quantum mechanics etc.
If you're lost in the zeros:
1,000,000: Million
1,000,000,000: Billion
1,000,000,000,000: Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000: Thousand Trillion (1 petaflop)
Again I'm too lazy to work out how this compares to the average home computer (although granted there's no such thing really) hopefully someone reading this has the skills to answer
I suppose I just think it's quite impressive when you consider how quickly a second comes and goes!
415,500,000,000,000,000
Mainly used for computational scientific tasks that require extremely intensive processing e.g. molecular modeling, quantum mechanics etc.
If you're lost in the zeros:
1,000,000: Million
1,000,000,000: Billion
1,000,000,000,000: Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000: Thousand Trillion (1 petaflop)
Again I'm too lazy to work out how this compares to the average home computer (although granted there's no such thing really) hopefully someone reading this has the skills to answer
I suppose I just think it's quite impressive when you consider how quickly a second comes and goes!