IBM BlueGene remains number one supercomputer
Reno (NV) – The IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer is still the best in the world according to the latest Top 500 Supercomputers list. The list shows the recently updated Lawrence Livermore computer to have a massive 478 teraflops, that’s 478 trillion operations a second. Coming in the number two spot is another IBM computer at a German research center with a “mere” 167 teraflops of power.
As you can guess, IBM made 46% of all the supercomputers in the list while HP came in second place with 33%. 64% of the computers used Intel processors while AMD made up 16%.
The majority of the supercomputers were located in the United States with the United Kingdom coming in second. The US had 283 computers or 56.6% of the list while the UK had 48 supercomputers or 9.6%. If you count operations per second, instead of pure numbers, then Japan comes easily comes in second place behind the United States.
The top 500 list is released twice a year in conjunction with the Supercomputing Conference in Reno Nevada. You can view the list here.
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This won't stay static for long..technology is being developed at such a rate that super-computers are becoming much faster, much smaller and much cheaper. The University of Texas recently installed 15,000 quad-core AMD Operton processors to build a huge number cruncher. Then you have the graphics cards being used as FPU units. Expect change and expect it to be drastic.