For comparison, the first supercomputer that was in the Teraflops range and that was available outside of the nuclear labs was the Pittsburgh Terascale machine.

For comparison, the first supercomputer that was in the Teraflops range and that was available outside of the nuclear labs was the Pittsburgh Terascale machine. http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2001/terascale-10-01-01.html http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2001/terascale-10-01-01.h... It cost $45M, and peaked at 6 Teraflops. (I think that was on 32 bit floats, but I can't find the specs. It might have been 64 bit floats) "Total TCS floor space is roughly that of a basketball court. It uses 14 miles of high-bandwidth interconnect cable to maintain communication among its 3,000 processors. Another seven miles of serial, copper cable and a mile of fiber-optic cable provide for data handling. The TCS requires 664 kilowatts of power, enough to power 500 homes. It produces heat equivalent to burning 169 pounds of coal an hour, much of which is used in heating the Westinghouse Energy Center. To cool the computer room, more than 600 feet of eight-inch cooling pipe, weighing 12 tons, circulate up to 900 gallons of water per minute, and twelve 30-ton air-handling units provide cooling capacity equivalent to 375 room air conditioners."