Highlights from the Top 50
- The entry level into the TOP50 is at 35.2 Tflop/s
- The U.S. has about the same percentage of systems (52 percent) in the TOP50 than in the TOP500.
- The dominant architectures are custom-built massively parallel systems MPPs with 56 percent ahead of commodity clusters with 40 percent.
- IBM leads the TOP50 with 36 percent of systems and 56 percent of performance.
- No 2 is Cray with 14 percent of systems and 10.4 percent of performance.
- SGI is third with 10 percent of systems and 7.5 percent of performance, closely followed by Dell with 10 percent of systems and 4.4 percent of performance.
- HP, absent from the TOP50 twelve months ago, has now 6 percent of systems and 5.1 percent of performance.
- 60 percent of systems are installed at research labs and 34 percent at universities.
- There is no system using Gigabit Ethernet in the TOP50.
- IBM’s BlueGene is the most-used system family with 10 systems (20 percent).
- Intel processors are used in 38 percent of systems, ahead of IBM’s Power processors in 34 percent and AMD in 26 percent.
- The average concurrency level is 24,400 cores per system – up from 15,690 six month ago.