created on 03 May 2007, by Syndication, read more…
Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released. The best performance on the Linpack benchmark is used as performance measure for ranking the computer systems. The list contains a variety of information including the system specifications and its major application areas.
The last TOP500 list has been released like each year during the SuperComputing (SC06) conference in Tampa, Florida. Here are the top 10 most powerful supercomputers of the world:
RANK
INSTITUTION
COMPUTER
#PROCESSORS
#Tflops
1
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
eServer Blue Gene Solution
131072
280.6
2
NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia/ Cray Red Storm
26544
101.4
3
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
eServer Blue Gene Solution
40960
91.290
4
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz
12208
75.760
5
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
BladeCenter JS21 Cluster
10240
62.630
6
NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories
PowerEdge 1850
9024
53
7
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
NovaScale 5160
9968
52.840
8
NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
SGI Altix 1.5 GHz
10160
51.870
9
GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Sun Fire x4600 Cluster
11088
47.380
10
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cray XT3
10424
43.480
(Note that there is a french supercomputer on the top ten list...) Take a look at the complete list here .
