Main Highlights
- The new No. 1 system Roadrunner breaks the petaflop/s barrier and is one of the most energy efficient systems on the TOP500.
- Four U.S. DOE systems dominate the TOP5.
- Intel dominates the high-end processor market with 75 percent of all systems and 90 percent of quad-core based systems.
- Quad-cores processors are used in 56 percent of the systems. Their use accelerates performance growth at all levels.
- Top industrial customer at No. 10 is the French oil company: Total Exploration Production.
- IBM defends its top market share ahead of Hewlett-Packard.