Here Are The 10 Most Powerful Supercomputers
And They All Run Linux!
10. Fermi
Based at Italy's CINECA joint venture, Fermi is the
first Blue Gene/Q-based system on our list,
clocking in at 1.72 petaflops driven by 163,840
PowerPC cores.
Runs on Linux.
9. Tianhe-1A
The only Chinese entry into this top 10, Tianhe-1A
turned in a 2.56 petaflop performance mark, on the
strength of its 186,368 Xeon processor cores. It's
also the first machine on this list to use co-
processors for additional performance -- 100,352
Nvidia 2050 cores, to be precise.
Runs on Linux.
8. SuperMUC
A hardy perennial of the Top500 list, SuperMUC is
based at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center near
Munich. Clocking in at 2.89 petaflops, it's powered
by 147,456 Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
Runs on Linux.
7. JUQUEEN
Juelich-based JUQUEEN eclipsed its German rival
SuperMUC to capture the fifth spot on the
November list, posting a 4.14-petaflop mark on the
Linpack test. Unlike SuperMUC, it's powered by a
393,216-core Blue Gene/Q system.
Runs on Linux.
6. Stampede
Dell's Stampede, which rode its new Intel Xeon Phi
processors a total of 204,900 cores' worth to a
2.66 petaflop benchmark. Installed at the
University of Texas in Austin, Stampede also packs
112,500 accelerator cores as part of the Xeon Phi
platform.
Runs on Linux.
5. Mira
Also using the Blue Gene/Q architecture is Mira, of
the Department of Energy's Argonne National
Laboratories. However, it packs substantially more
cores than JUQUEEN -- 786,432, to be exact -- in
return for a nearly doubled performance return of
8.16 petaflops.
Runs on Linux.
4. K Computer
Dropping to the third place is the Fujitsu K
Computer, at Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for
Computational Sciences. Using 705,024 SPARC64
cores, it produced a Linpack score of 10.51
petaflops.
Runs on Linux.
3. Sequoia
The first million-core system, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratories' Sequoia was once the top
dog in the super computer list. It cranks out a
whopping 16.32 petaflops with its 1,572,864
processor cores. Sequoia is the fourth and last
Blue Gene/Q system on the latest list.
Runs on Linux.
2. Titan
The appropriately named Titan is a Cray XK7
powerhouse, producing 17.59 petaflops of
performance using 560,640 AMD Opteron processor
cores and 261,632 Nvidia K20x accelerators. It
operates at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Runs on Linux.
1. Tianhe-2
A supercomputer developed by China’s National
University of Defense Technology, is the world’s
new No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86
petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, according to
the 41stedition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of
the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The
list was announced June 17 during the opening
session of the 2013 International Supercomputing
Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
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And They All Run Linux!
10. Fermi
Based at Italy's CINECA joint venture, Fermi is the
first Blue Gene/Q-based system on our list,
clocking in at 1.72 petaflops driven by 163,840
PowerPC cores.
Runs on Linux.
9. Tianhe-1A
The only Chinese entry into this top 10, Tianhe-1A
turned in a 2.56 petaflop performance mark, on the
strength of its 186,368 Xeon processor cores. It's
also the first machine on this list to use co-
processors for additional performance -- 100,352
Nvidia 2050 cores, to be precise.
Runs on Linux.
8. SuperMUC
A hardy perennial of the Top500 list, SuperMUC is
based at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center near
Munich. Clocking in at 2.89 petaflops, it's powered
by 147,456 Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
Runs on Linux.
7. JUQUEEN
Juelich-based JUQUEEN eclipsed its German rival
SuperMUC to capture the fifth spot on the
November list, posting a 4.14-petaflop mark on the
Linpack test. Unlike SuperMUC, it's powered by a
393,216-core Blue Gene/Q system.
Runs on Linux.
6. Stampede
Dell's Stampede, which rode its new Intel Xeon Phi
processors a total of 204,900 cores' worth to a
2.66 petaflop benchmark. Installed at the
University of Texas in Austin, Stampede also packs
112,500 accelerator cores as part of the Xeon Phi
platform.
Runs on Linux.
5. Mira
Also using the Blue Gene/Q architecture is Mira, of
the Department of Energy's Argonne National
Laboratories. However, it packs substantially more
cores than JUQUEEN -- 786,432, to be exact -- in
return for a nearly doubled performance return of
8.16 petaflops.
Runs on Linux.
4. K Computer
Dropping to the third place is the Fujitsu K
Computer, at Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for
Computational Sciences. Using 705,024 SPARC64
cores, it produced a Linpack score of 10.51
petaflops.
Runs on Linux.
3. Sequoia
The first million-core system, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratories' Sequoia was once the top
dog in the super computer list. It cranks out a
whopping 16.32 petaflops with its 1,572,864
processor cores. Sequoia is the fourth and last
Blue Gene/Q system on the latest list.
Runs on Linux.
2. Titan
The appropriately named Titan is a Cray XK7
powerhouse, producing 17.59 petaflops of
performance using 560,640 AMD Opteron processor
cores and 261,632 Nvidia K20x accelerators. It
operates at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Runs on Linux.
1. Tianhe-2
A supercomputer developed by China’s National
University of Defense Technology, is the world’s
new No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86
petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, according to
the 41stedition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of
the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The
list was announced June 17 during the opening
session of the 2013 International Supercomputing
Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
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