“Over the last year computer power has increased as expected, and so it looks like we're still on target to have supercomputers with 10^18 FLOPS around 2018.”

Shane LeggResearcher

Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies

In 2018 ORNL's Summit reached roughly 1.9 exaops on a mixed-precision genomics application, but sustained double-precision exascale (10^18 FLOPS on HPL) was not achieved until Frontier hit 1.1 exaflops in May 2022 — about four years later than 'around 2018'.