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The 31st list will be released during the Opening Session of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’08) in Dresden, Germany. We are curious to see whether the first Petaflop/s system will have made it into the next TOP500. One of the hot candidates certainly is IBM’s Roadrunner at LANL in Los Alamos, USA.

Hans Meuer looks back over 15 years of supercomputing experience starting with the Mannheim supercomputing statistics in 1986 and then moving forward with the TOP500 project, launched in 1993. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the world’s 500 most powerful computer systems is compiled and released. The best performance on the Linpack benchmark is used as the measurement for ranking the computer systems.

• Supercomputing, Quo Vadis?

  Erfahrungen aus 15 Jahren TOP500 und 30 Listen
  Hans Werner Meuer, University of Mannheim & Prometeus GmbH, Germany
  Powerpoint, PDF

• The TOP500 Project

  Lessons Learned in Fourteen Years of Experience
  Hans Werner Meuer, University of Mannheim & Prometeus GmbH, Germany
  Powerpoint, PDF

The annual Top 100 supercomputers list in china has been released by the Specialty Association of Mathematical & Scientific Software (SAMSS). The list reports on publicly announced computers on the PRC Mainland only.

TOP500 Certificates for entries that made it into the the last list which was released in Reno on November 12th are now available for download.

The twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, already a closely watched event in the world of high performance computing, is expected to become an even hotter topic of discussion as the latest list shows five new entrants in the Top 10, which includes sites in the United States, Germany, India and Sweden. The 30th edition of the TOP500 list was released today (Nov. 12, 2007) at SC07, the international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, in Reno, Nevada.

In time for the 30th TOP500 list, which will be released next week in Reno, Nevada, the TOP500 project has a new look and many new features that will make it easier to access the list and other related information.

We had a survey running the last few months that helped us understand what visitors of the site are missing. We have addressed most of issues and we will try to keep improving the site in the next few months.

The next TOP500 list will be released Nov. 13th 2007 during the Supercomputing Conference (SC07) in Reno Nevada.

Each year the first TOP500 list is released in June at the International Supercomputer Conference, in Dresden, Germany. The deadline for submitting entries is April 15th. The second TOP500 list is released in November in time for the SC conference. The deadline for submitting entries is October 15th.