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United States Regains Supercomputer Crown with 16.32 Petaflop IBM Sequoia

Monday, June 18, 2012 17:05
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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.

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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
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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
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8     Juelich Germany      JuQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
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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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