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Top500 – For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.
Fujitsu’s “K Computer” installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan, is now the No. 2 system with 10.51 Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 705,024 SPARC64 processing cores. The K Computer held the No. 1 spot on the previous two lists.
The new Mira supercomputer, an IBM BlueGene/Q system at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, debuted at No. 3, with 8.15 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 786,432 cores. The other U.S. system in the Top 10 is the upgraded Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which was the top U.S. system on the previous list and now clocks in at No. 6.
Rank Site Computer 1 DOE/NNSA/LLNL USA Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, 2 RIKEN Japan K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Fujitsu 3 DOE/SC/Argonne USA Mira - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz 4 Leibniz Germany SuperMUC - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz 5 Tianjin China Tianhe-1A - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93 GHz, NVIDIA 2050 NUDT 6 DOE/Oak Ridge USA Jaguar - Cray XK6, Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA 2090 Cray Inc. 7 CINECA Italy Fermi - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom IBM 8 Juelich Germany JuQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom IBM 9 CEA France Curie thin nodes - Bullx B510, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband QDR Bull 10 Shenzhen China Nebulae - Dawning TC3600 Blade System, Xeon X5650 6C 2.66GHz, Infiniband QDR, NVIDIA 2050 Dawning
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