Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Growth in Supercomputer Power

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In order of appearence:

17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	FLOPS	Supercomputer
1993.49589041096	59700000000	CM-5/1024
1993.88493150685	124500000000	Num. Wind Tun.
1994.88219178082	170400000000	Num. Wind Tun.
1996.47540983607	220400000000	SR2201/1024
1996.89344262295	368200000000	CP-PACS/2048
1997.8904109589	1338000000000	ASCI Red
2000.44262295082	2379600000000	ASCI Red
2000.8606557377	7226000000000	ASCI White
2002.47397260274	35860000000000	Earth Simulator
2004.81967213115	51900000000000	Columbia
2004.91803278689	58500000000000	SX-8
2005.16438356164	67000000000000	ASCI Purple
2005.41643835616	245890000000000	Blue Gene/L
2006.75068493151	670000000000000	Blue Gene/P
2007	670000000000000	MDGrape 3-based
Growth in Supercomputer Power, FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations per Second), Logarithmic Plot, pg 71. Source: www.top500.org http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ccn/salishan2003/pdf/seager.pdf http://www.llnl.gov/asci/platforms/bluegene/agenda.html http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=50900052 http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2002/comp-soft-math/redstorm.html