Earth Simulator
The Earth Simulator, built from SX-6 nodes, was the fastest supercomputer from June 2002 to June 2004 on the LINPACK benchmark, achieving 35.86 TFLOPS. As of 2020, 3 Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards can deliver comparable performance, at 14 TFLOPS per card. The SX-9 was introduced in 2007 and discontinued in 2015.