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. In November of 2003 Europe had 142 entries. Since then the number has declined, first slowley, then increasingly faster. At this rate, the June 2008 list would be the last one with a European entry. But that could be a bit pessimistic. When one looks at the performace of the European TOP500 machines, one sees it stays constant at about 20% over the past decade. Hence one can conclude that it is mainly on the smaller machines that Europe is losing ground.