As of December 1996, the world's fastest supercomputer was ASCI Red at Sandia National Laboratories. It was the first computer to achieve a speed of 1 teraflop, which is equal to 10^12 floating-point operations per second.
The world’s fastest computer has been able to perform (as of Dec. 1996)
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 1997 · Topic: Basics of Computers and Information Technology (Data Representation and Units of Measurement (Bits, Bytes, KiloBytes, etc.))
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Answer: C. 1012 operations per second
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