Highlights from the Top 10
- The new Roadrunner system at DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) built by IBM broke – as first system ever – the petaflop/s Linpack barrier with 1.026 petaflop/s. Roadrunner is based on the IBM QS22 blades which are built with advanced versions of the processor in the Sony PlayStation 3. These nodes are connected with a commodity InfiniBand network.
- The TOP10 shows six new systems and three other systems that improved their measured speed.
- The No. 1, 2, 3, and 5 systems are all installed at U.S. DOE laboratories and all TOP5 systems are in the U.S.
- The No. 2 system is DOE’s IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a Linpack performance of 478.2 Tflop/s.
- At No. 3 is a brand-new installation of a newer version of the same type of IBM system. It is a BlueGene/P system installed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and it achieved 450.3 Tflop/s.
- The No. 4 system is installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas. It is built by Sun using SunBlade x6420servers and achieved 326 Tflop/s. This is the first time Sun placed a system in the TOP10.
- The No. 5 system is a Cray XT4 system installed at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was recently upgraded with quad-core processors and achieved a Linpack performance of 205 Tflop/s.
- The No. 6 system is the first system on the list outside the U.S. and is installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ). It is an IBM BlueGene/P system and was measured at 180 Tflop/s.
- The No. 7 system is installed at a new center, the New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) in Rio Rancho, N.M. It is built by SGI and based on the Altix ICE 8200 model. It was measured at 133.2 Tflop/s.
- For the second time since November, India placed a system in the TOP10. The Computational Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India, installed a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. They integrated this system with their own innovative routing technology and achieved a performance of 132.8 Tflop/s, which was sufficient for No. 8.
- The No. 9 system is a new BlueGene/P system installed at the “Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique” (IDRIS) in France, which was measured with 112.5 Tflop/s.
- The last new system in the TOP10 – at No. 10 – is also a SGI Altix ICE 8200 system. It is the biggest system installed at an industrial customer, Total Exploration Production. It was ranked based on a Linpack performance of 106.1 Tflop/s.