Infiniband
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link primarily used in high-performance computing. Its features include quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable. The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices. It is a superset of the Virtual Interface Architecture. (Source: Wikipedia)
For more information, see the section about Infiniband in the recent "Overview of Recent Supercomputers".
The following table shows previous lists and the number of systems installed when the list was published. Efficiency in the table is SUM(Rmax)/SUM(Rpeak), expressed as a percentage.
| List | Systems | Highest Ranking | Sum Rmax (GFlops) |
Sum Rpeak (GFlops) |
Efficiency (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/2008 | 121 | 1 | 4349472.62 | 5956890.40 | 73.02 |
| 11/2007 | 121 | 3 | 1961223.08 | 2798407.50 | 70.08 |
| 06/2007 | 130 | 8 | 1257152.44 | 1768960.20 | 71.07 |
| 11/2006 | 78 | 6 | 592273.07 | 841744.60 | 70.36 |
| 06/2006 | 36 | 6 | 221074.19 | 316047.20 | 69.95 |
| 11/2005 | 27 | 5 | 127772.50 | 182111.60 | 70.16 |
| 06/2005 | 16 | 14 | 56498.70 | 79134.40 | 71.40 |
| 11/2004 | 10 | 7 | 23868.90 | 38133.12 | 62.59 |
| 06/2004 | 10 | 159 | 9771.90 | 13851.52 | 70.55 |
| 11/2003 | 3 | 3 | 12409.00 | 20804.72 | 59.65 |
| 06/2003 | 1 | 349 | 351.00 | 460.80 | 76.17 |