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New Top500 List Released at Supercomputing '06

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the measuring-contest dept.

Guybrush_T writes "Today the 27th Edition of the Top 500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers was released at ISC 2006. IBM BlueGene/L remains the world fastest computer with 280.6 TFlop/s. No new US system in the top10 this year, since they all come from Europe and Japan. The French Cluster at CEA (French NNSA equivalent) is number 5 with 42.9 TFlop/s. The Earth simulator (no 10) is no longer the largest system in Japan since the GSIC Center built a 38.2 TFlop/s Cluster, reaching the 7th place. The German cluster at Juelich is number 8 with 37.3 TFlop/s. The full list, and the previous 26 lists, are available on the Top500.org site."

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  1. I for one.... by JayDot · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our new European and Asian supercomputer overlords.

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    1. Re:I for one.... by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

      welcome our new European and Asian supercomputer overlords.

      With the Chinese quest to show they're as good as anybody, if not better, they'll probably be claiming something which dwarfs the USA DOE's Blue Gene chart-topper in a few years. To be powered and cooled at the site of the Three Gorges Dam.

      probably use it to run world economic models and such to plan for when the USA defaults on hits 9+ trillion $ debt.

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  2. What, no microsoft? by harris+s+newman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its supprising that no microsoft systems are listed....

    1. Re:What, no microsoft? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Its supprising that no microsoft systems are listed....

      Well, they only published the requirements for Vista a few weeks ago; I'm sure they'll do better next year.

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    2. Re:What, no microsoft? by HermanAB · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, now that you mention it, *nobody* beats MS in distributed botnets...

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  3. Damn... by ReidMaynard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spanky's Cluster'O'Porn just missed the top 500 :-(

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  4. 131072 Processors! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shit! I can remember when processors had that many transistors!

    hello, olde programmers home, i'm enquiring for a vacancy...

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  5. Missing Computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the computer that processes Bill Gates' IRS filing?

  6. Re:Cue the Vista / Linux / Beowulf cluster jokes by bcat24 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our new Beowulf cluster of Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputer overlords.

    In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputers imagine YOU!
    On the other hand, in Korea, only old people imagine a Beowulf cluster of Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputers.

    Oh! Won't somebody please think of the Beowulf clusters of Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputers?

    Did I forget anything?

  7. Blue Gene? by theheff · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're telling me that the fastest computer in the world is a pair of pants??

    1. Re:Blue Gene? by blibbler · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well I know all my thinking takes place in my pants.

  8. But does it run... by saleenS281 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But does it run Windows Cluster Edition? (Bet you didn't see THAT one coming)

  9. Yeah... by tpjunkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bite my shiny Beowulf clustered, Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputing ass!

  10. Re:how many aren't listed? by Entropy · · Score: 2, Funny

    US government, for one, has a couple of military use supercomputers up there that they aren't even willing to acknowledge the existance of. Just so long as one of them isn't named SKYNET, I'm content ..

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  11. Re:From 11 to 451... by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, your cluster is on fire!!!!

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  12. What? No botnets listed? by HermanAB · · Score: 2, Funny

    A typical MS Windows botnet will outperform any of these machines on the SOPS (SPAM operations per second) benchmark...

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  13. Re:Cue the Vista / Linux / Beowulf cluster jokes by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's no Beowulf cluster of Linux-running, not quite Vista-capable supercomputers.. it's a space station!

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  14. Re:Cue the Vista / Linux / Beowulf cluster jokes by drawfour · · Score: 3, Funny
    Did I forget anything?
    Yes. You forgot to be funny.
  15. The Network is the Computer by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't the Slashdot DDoS network the most powerful "computer" in the world?

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  16. Supercomputing '06 by breckinshire · · Score: 2, Funny

    Supercomputing '06 was awesome. They threw this foam party... and well, 12 people died of electrocution, but it was still a great time. At one point, IBM's Deep Blue took off its chassis... you should've been there.