Highlights of the 33rd TOP500 List to be presented during opening session of ISC'09

The highlights of the 33rd TOP500 list will be presented during the opening session of ISC'09 in Hamburg, Germany.

Since the beginning of the TOP500 project in 1993, the June edition of the TOP500 list with the fastest supercomputers in the world has been published at the International Supercomputing Conferences, ISC, in Germany. One year ago at ISC’08, we saw the very first Petaflop/s system - Roadrunner at LANL in Los Alamos, USA, making it into the TOP500. In the 32nd list at SC08 in Austin a second Petaflop/s system - the Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Jaguar – made the list as runner up of Roadrunner. There are different indications that Jaguar is even capable to grab the top spot in the next edition of the TOP500 list at ISC’09. The presentation of the 33rd TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers will include the Awarding of the #1 System Worldwide, #1 System Asia, #1 System Europe and #1 System Middle-East.