Feuerwizard
June 22nd, 2004, 11:23 am
Industry researchers in the United States and Germany reported on Monday that IBM is currently holding two out of ten spots for world's supercomputers. IBM is also involved with many top 500 supercomputers throughout the world as the company's logo displays on many of the systems.
The top 500 supercomputers are measured via a benchmark utility known as Linpack. Linpack records the maximum number of floating point operations per second to determine the Top 500 supercomputers. This competition is held every six months.
NEC's supercomputer, which is located in Yokohama, Japan, stole the first place for the third year in a row with Linpack performance of 35.86 Tflops/s. A supercomputer in Lawrence Livermore National Lab, code-named Thunder, got the second place. Thunder pushed the previous second place winner, an HP cluster, into the third spot. The HP cluster supercomputer is located at the Los Almos National Lab.
IBM made an impressive impact in the "race". The company's two prototype Blue Gene supercomputers were placed in the Top 10 category. The two computers took the 4th and 8th spot in the Top 10 category and were developed by IBM and Lawrence Livermore. Both research facilities are planning to install the final product in Livermore Labs to study cosmology and laser-plasma interactions. The Blue Gene supercomputers are expected to perform at speeds of 256 teraflops, according to IBM.
The compliers at Top 500 stated that IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers will take over NEC's supercomputer, which has held the number one position for three straight years. IBM is likely to beat NEC as early as the end of 2004.
HP and IBM are the top two suppliers of the supercomputers for the majority in the list. IBM has reported 224 systems or 44.8 percent, while HP has accounted 28 percent of the systems.
A Chinese, for the first time, has also made the Top 10 of the Top 500 list. The Chinese supercomputer is located in Shanghai, China and is powered by Advanced's Micro Devices' (AMD) Opteron processors.
University of Tennessee, University of Mannheim, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab were the compilers of the Top 500 supercomputer list.
The top 500 supercomputers are measured via a benchmark utility known as Linpack. Linpack records the maximum number of floating point operations per second to determine the Top 500 supercomputers. This competition is held every six months.
NEC's supercomputer, which is located in Yokohama, Japan, stole the first place for the third year in a row with Linpack performance of 35.86 Tflops/s. A supercomputer in Lawrence Livermore National Lab, code-named Thunder, got the second place. Thunder pushed the previous second place winner, an HP cluster, into the third spot. The HP cluster supercomputer is located at the Los Almos National Lab.
IBM made an impressive impact in the "race". The company's two prototype Blue Gene supercomputers were placed in the Top 10 category. The two computers took the 4th and 8th spot in the Top 10 category and were developed by IBM and Lawrence Livermore. Both research facilities are planning to install the final product in Livermore Labs to study cosmology and laser-plasma interactions. The Blue Gene supercomputers are expected to perform at speeds of 256 teraflops, according to IBM.
The compliers at Top 500 stated that IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers will take over NEC's supercomputer, which has held the number one position for three straight years. IBM is likely to beat NEC as early as the end of 2004.
HP and IBM are the top two suppliers of the supercomputers for the majority in the list. IBM has reported 224 systems or 44.8 percent, while HP has accounted 28 percent of the systems.
A Chinese, for the first time, has also made the Top 10 of the Top 500 list. The Chinese supercomputer is located in Shanghai, China and is powered by Advanced's Micro Devices' (AMD) Opteron processors.
University of Tennessee, University of Mannheim, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab were the compilers of the Top 500 supercomputer list.