A list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers is maintained at Top 500: The List . The most recent list was published in November 2015. For the sixth year in a row, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer at China’s National University of Defense Technology came in #1. The following is Top 500’s list of the top 10 supercomputers.
Top 10 Sites for November 2015
For more information about the sites and systems in the list, click on the links or view the complete list .
RANK
SITE
SYSTEM
CORES
RMAX (TFLOP/S)
RPEAK (TFLOP/S)
POWER (KW)
1
National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) – TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C 2.200GHz, TH Express-2, Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P3,120,000
33,862.7
54,902.4
17,808
2
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Titan – Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x560,640
17,590.0
27,112.5
8,209
3
DOE/NNSA/LLNL Sequoia – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom1,572,864
17,173.2
20,132.7
7,890
4
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect 705,024
10,510.0
11,280.4
12,660
5
DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory Mira – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom786,432
8,586.6
10,066.3
3,945
6
DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL Trinity – Cray XC40, Xeon E5-2698v3 16C 2.3GHz, Aries interconnect 301,056
8,100.9
11,078.9
7
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Piz Daint – Cray XC30, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA K20x115,984
6,271.0
7,788.9
2,325
8
HLRS – Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart Hazel Hen – Cray XC40, Xeon E5-2680v3 12C 2.5GHz, Aries interconnect 185,088
5,640.2
7,403.5
9
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Shaheen II – Cray XC40, Xeon E5-2698v3 16C 2.3GHz, Aries interconnect 196,608
5,537.0
7,235.2
2,834
10
Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas Stampede – PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi SE10P462,462
5,168.1
The following video show the Titan Cray XK7 is known as the world’s #1 open source supercomputer.
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The following link provides a list of Top 500 ‘s winner in each of the last 20 years.
David Russell Schilling
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