Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on the LINPACK, translated by Google Chrome from the German Wikipedia, listing Linpack Benchmark Results as of November 2018.
In 1979 American computer scientist Jack Dongarra (University of Tennesse, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN) together Jim Bunch, Cleve Moler and Pete Stewart developed the LINPACK Benchmark, a measure of a system's floating point computing power. The LINPACK benchmark measures how fast a computer solves a dense n by n system of linear equations Ax = b, which is a common task in engineering. It is the benchmark used in the twice-annual ranking of the world's supercomputers by Top500.org.
