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27th Edition of TOP500 List of World’s Fastest Supercomputers Released: DOE/LLNL BlueGene/L and IBM gain Top Positions
MANNHEIM, Germany; KNOXVILLE, Tenn.; & – BERKELEY, Calif.; In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 27th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released today (June 28, 2006) at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2006) in Dresden, Germany..
The new TOP500 list, as well as the previous 26 lists, can be found on the Web at http://www.top500.org/.
Sun propels AMD Opteron processor-based supercomputer into 7th place on TOP500 supercomputer list
Named TSUBAME, this supercomputer is the fastest in Asia appearing for the first time at 7th place on the list using 10,480 AMD Opteron processor cores in Sun Fire Server x64 (x86,64-bit) systems.
Europe drops below 100 entries in the TOP500, Asia now second after America
With only 83 machines in the TOP500, Europe is at the lowest level in count of the number of entries in the TOP500 for the last decade.