Roadrunner continues to outpace supercomputing field

According to the semi-annual TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world, which will be published on Monday in an international conference on computers in 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. This list began in June and November of each year.

IBM Supercomputer to exist in the Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory, known as the Roadrunner, to continue to lead the clutch a year ago. Computers can process 1105 petaflop / s or quadrillions of floating point operations per second, according to the standard TOP500 Linpack. Following hot on the second year in a row, and the Jaguar Cray XT5 system in the Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a 1059-hour petaflop / second.

Despite the consistency in the two systems, there are about 10 new entrants into the top 500 this year, and not in the United States from the PC the new IBM, known as JUGENE installed the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany shot 825.5 teraflop / s, or trillions of floating point operations per second, which is good enough for third place on the list. Forschungszentrum Juelich, which also places extraordinary 10th JUROPA, which is a combination of Paul and NovaScale SunBlade Sunday x6048 server. Reached 274.8 teraflop / s.

The remainder of the top 10 fastest computers in the world, and includes all U. O. However, some sites would require international attention. IBM BlueGene / P system in the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. 14. There are, in early 5000 while in the Shanghai Supercomputer Center in the 15th China is underway.

Minimum of TOP500 list in this increasingly difficult to obtain. Slow computer on the list at 17.1 teraflop / s, within six months, when the computer is slow on the list reached the 12.64 teraflop / s. This also means that the power for a total of 500 giant faster than 22.6 petaflop / second. Six months ago, more than 500 hit 16.95 petaflop / second and 11.7 petaflop / year.

While some of the older space, IBM common than to serve as supercomputers have dominated and Hewlett-Packard. Although IBM leads the overall capacity, the HP has a market share greater than the IBM 188-212.

People on the server, Intel and the lion's share of the processor, and a little less than 80 per cent or 399 of the 500th IBM Power processor is the second most popular, available in the system 55.

Top 10:

• Roadrunner, IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory (1105 petaflop / w)
Cray • Jaguar, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1059 petaflop / w)
• JUGENE, IBM, Forschungszentrum Juelich (825.5 teraflop / s)
• chandelier, and the intelligence unit in particular NASA research center (487.01 teraflop / s)
• BlueGeneL, IBM, and a laboratory for Lawrence Livermore National (478.2 teraflop / s)
• Kraken XT5, Cray, and the National Institute of Computer Science (463.3 teraflop / s)
• BlueGene / P, IBM, and Argonne National Laboratory (458.61 teraflop / s)
• Sunday, are the advanced guard in Texas (433.20 teraflop / s)
• Dawn, IBM, and a laboratory for Lawrence Livermore National (415.70 teraflop / s)
• JUROPA Paul S., Forschungszentrum Juelich (274.80 teraflop / s)