This isn't so directly related, and I know that performance figures are highly workload dependent and always under the headline figures but I want to take a mom

This isn't so directly related, and I know that performance figures are highly workload dependent and always under the headline figures but I want to take a moment to point out the multi-petaflop figures. Yes they're not full precision, but still. How long ago would this have felt like an outrageous supercomputer? Quick thing to show the sheer scale of these figures. This is 10^15 operations per second, and if you sit a foot from your screen that takes light about a nanosecond to reach you. That means that from the light leaving your screen to it hitting your eyeballs these things can have done another million calculations. I know this isn't particularly constructive, but I'm hit with waves of nostalgia and older performance figures seeing this.