Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked

Shadow Wrought writes "The Register is reporting on (alternate ZDNet article) the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Top of the list is the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, with a benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s. HP and IBM claim 159 and 158 of the systems respectively. I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"

Comments

Slashdotted already?

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously the list isn't hosted on one of those computers.

Can't be

[phorm]

Because if that were the answer - then 5 minute prior to you posting it the earth would have been destroyed to make well for an interstellar highway.

Geeze, I just finish reading hitchhiker and realize just how many quotes I've been missing out on

Re:Can't be

[Xerithane]

Because if that were the answer - then 5 minute prior to you posting it the earth would have been destroyed to make well for an interstellar highway.

You need to read it again, mate. The earth was destroyed while calculating the question. 42 was just the answer.

Re:Can't be

[Surak]

The question is "How many teraflops does Deep Th...."

*KABLOOM* *the Earth is suddenly destroyed by a Vogon Destructor fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass*

Re:Can't be

[phorm]

It's the answer to the question of what the question to the answer to the question of the meaning of life is.

*ouch*
I think that Adams must have been a programmer at one point... he has this knack for literary loops...

Highest TFlops in one location

[eericson]

My question to anyone out there that might now is what location has the highest computing resources. Looking at the list, it seems like Lawrence Livermore has at least 3 systems in the top 50, and more from there on down.

Anyone have a toal available resources in one location list?

-E2