Consider the top super computers back at the start of Top500 - https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1993/06/ https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1993/0

Consider the top super computers back at the start of Top500 - https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1993/06/ https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1993/06/ ... which are nearly all various configurations of a CM-5 or Cray/HPE. I am still amazed at how far we've come. A Raspberry Pi5 is 31.4 Gflops at 8.6W ( https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.htm... ). That would have put it on the first page 1993. (aside: my favorite entry on there is still https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ )