TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006

geaux writes to let us know about the release of the 28th TOP500 List of the world's fastest supercomputers. From the article: "The IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retains the No. 1 spot with a Linpack performance of 280.6 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second, or Tflop/s). The new No. 2 systems is Sandia National Laboratories' Cray Red Storm supercomputer, only the second system ever to be recorded to exceed the 100 Tflops/s mark with 101.4 Tflops/s... Slipping to No. 3 is the IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution system, installed at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, with 91.20 Tflops/s Linpack performance." You need over 6.6 Tflop/s to make it into the top 100.

Comments

That's all good...

[DerekTomes]

...but can it run Microsoft Word? :|

Re:Don't feel bad for Blue Gene.

[Code Master]

I'll bet that Blue Gene can also retire as a building's furnace as well.

Re:Real world examples

[glwtta]

Yeah, I can't really get a clear picture unless they put it into standard units, like Libraries of Congress, or VW Beatles... I think there's also one with stacks of stuff to the Moon - that's a good one too.

Look out

[jbeaupre]

Sandia's supercomputer program, along with LANL's and all the weapon and nuke work done between the two is part of New Mexico's plan to take over the world ... mañana.

You need over 6.6 Tflop/s to make it into the top

[robyannetta]

You need over 6.6 Tflop/s to make it into the top 100.

...or three PS3s, but I don't forsee any one of us getting our hands on at least one of these for a few months...