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New Top 500 Supercomputer List

Posted by kdawson on from the every-one-a-winner dept.

geaux and other readers let us know that the new Top 500 Supercomputer list is out. The top two both break the Petaflops barrier: LANL's IBM "RoadRunner" and ORNL's Cray XT5 "Jaguar." (Contrary to our discussion a few days back, IBM's last-minute upgrade of RoadRunner salvaged the top spot for Big Blue. Kind of like bidding on eBay.) The top six all run in excess of 400 Teraflops. HP has more systems in the top 500 than IBM, reversing the order of the previous list. Both Intel and AMD issued press releases crowing over their wins, and both are correct — AMD highlights its presence in 7 of the top 10, while Intel boasts that 379 of the top 500 use their chips.

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  1. Re:you're joking, right? by Kagura · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SETI@home gets 495 teraFLOPS, according to this site: http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=sah

    Sure, it's not one supercomputer, but it still does more calculations for one purpose than any other single supercomputer can.

  2. Re:you're joking, right? by CaptainPatent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, no, the summary does not say that at all. Maybe you misread the '500'? ;)

    Come again? FTS:

    The top two both break the Petaflops barrier

    AKA 1000 TeraFlops.

    The top six all run in excess of 400 Teraflops.

    (I don't know how many are over the 500Tflop barrier but those are the computers between the 1PetaFlop and 400Tflop mark. ;-)

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  3. top 10 more important than 500 by Gates82 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HP has more systems in the top 500 than IBM

    Something tells me it is more impressive to have majority stake in the top 10 super computers than in the remaining 490.

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