New Top500 List Released at Supercomputing '06

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."

Comments

From 11 to 451...

[engagebot]

Dang, when our SuperMike was built (Lousiana State University), we were 11th on the list. A quick look now and we're at 451.

I feel old... ;0)

how many aren't listed?

[rritterson]

How well does this represent the real top 500?

If you look at the list, several of the computers/clusters are known simply as "Classified". It makes me wonder if those at the top really represent the top 10 most powerful supercomputers out there. I'm willing to be the US government, for one, has a couple of military use supercomputers up there that they aren't even willing to acknowledge the existance of.

At the other end of the spectrum, how many smaller clusters aren't on the list simply because the administrator doesn't have time to shut the entire thing down to run a LINPACK benchmark? The cluster I/we use would easily make it into the top 450, and maybe higher, but our research is deemed more important than the glory that comes with being on the list.