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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."

2 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. US is doing badly by twfry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The editors comment that there are no new 10 top US based computers is an odd comment. The US has 6 out of the top 10. Thats hardly doing poorly.

  2. Re:Can't they use water cooling by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because, maybe just maybe, they want accurate results?