June 2021

Although there was a trend of steady progress in the Green500, nothing has indicated a big step toward newer technologies.

The system to snag the No. 1 spot for the Green500 was MN-3 from Preferred Networks in Japan. Knocked from the top of the last list by NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD in the US, MN-3 is back to reclaim its crown. This system relies on the MN-Core chip, an accelerator optimized for matrix arithmetic, as well as a Xeon Platinum 8260M processor. MN-3 achieved a 29.70 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency and has a TOP500 ranking of 337.

HiPerGator AI of the University of Florida in the USA is now No.2 on the Green500 with a 29.52 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency. An NVIDIA machine boasts 138,880 cores, much more than any other machine in the Top5 of the Green500. Like many other systems on the list, this supercomputer utilizes an AMD processor – specifically the AMD EPYC 7742. With an overall performance that outpaces most of the other competition on the Green500, it's no surprise this machine holds the 22nd spot on the TOP500 list.

The Wilkes-3 system out of the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has achieved the No. 3 spot. A Dell EMC machine, this supercomputer had an efficiency of 28.14 gigaflops/watt. Like HiPerGator AI, this system relies on an AMD EPYC processor – the AMD EPYC 7763. This system is ranked 101 on the TOP500 list.

The MeluXina machine of LuxProvide holds the No. 4 spot on the Green500. It's also unique in that it is the only machine on the list from Luxembourg. Like many other machines, MeluXina is also using an EMD EPYC processor. This system's efficiency was clocked at 26.96 gigaflops/wat, and it is ranked 37 on the TOP500.

Rounding out the Top5 of the Green500 is NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. Created by NVIDIA in the USA, this machine also relies on an EMD EPYC processor. Ranked 216 on the TOP500, this system achieved 26.20 gigaflops/watt of efficiency. Again, this machine has an AMD EPYC processor.

Outside of the Top5, an incredible development is the Perlmutter system. This supercomputer was the only new machine in the Top10 in the TOP500 rankings; it also claims the No. 6 spot on the Green500. With a performance of 64.6 Pflop/s, this supercomputer's power efficiency of 25.55 gigaflops/watt is quite impressive.

Green500 Data

Rank TOP500 Rank System Cores Rmax (PFlop/s) Power (kW) Energy Efficiency (GFlops/watts)
1 335 MN-3 - MN-Core Server, Xeon Platinum 8260M 24C 2.4GHz, Preferred Networks MN-Core, MN-Core DirectConnect, Preferred Networks
Preferred Networks
Japan
1,664 1.82 61 29.700
2 22 HiPerGator AI - NVIDIA DGX A100, AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz, NVIDIA A100, Infiniband HDR, Nvidia
University of Florida
United States
138,880 17.20 583 29.521
3 100 Wilkes-3 - PowerEdge XE8545, AMD EPYC 7763 64C 2.45GHz, NVIDIA A100 80GB​, Infiniband HDR200 dual rail, DELL EMC
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
44,800 4.12 147 28.144
4 36 MeluXina - Accelerator Module - BullSequana XH2000, AMD EPYC 7452 32C 2.35GHz, NVIDIA A100 40GB, Mellanox HDR InfiniBand/ParTec ParaStation ClusterSuite, EVIDEN
LuxProvide
Luxembourg
99,200 10.52 390 26.957
5 214 NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD - NVIDIA DGX A100, AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz, NVIDIA A100, Mellanox HDR Infiniband, Nvidia
NVIDIA Corporation
United States
19,840 2.36 90 26.195
6 5 Perlmutter - HPE Cray EX235n, AMD EPYC 7763 64C 2.45GHz, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB, Slingshot-10, HPE
DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC
United States
706,304 64.59 2,528 25.550
7 8 JUWELS Booster Module - Bull Sequana XH2000 , AMD EPYC 7402 24C 2.8GHz, NVIDIA A100, Mellanox HDR InfiniBand/ParTec ParaStation ClusterSuite, EVIDEN
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
Germany
449,280 44.12 1,764 25.008
8 43 JURECA Data Centric Module - BullSequana XH2000, AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz, NVIDIA A100 40GB, Mellanox HDR InfiniBand/ParTec ParaStation ClusterSuite, EVIDEN
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
Germany
105,840 9.33 384 24.291
9 189 Spartan2 - Bull Sequana XH2000 , AMD EPYC 7402 24C 2.8GHz, NVIDIA A100, Mellanox HDR Infiniband, EVIDEN
Atos
France
23,040 2.57 106 24.262
10 93 Wisteria/BDEC-01 (Aquarius) - PRIMERGY GX2570 M6, Xeon Platinum 8360Y 36C 2.4GHz, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB, Infiniband HDR, Fujitsu
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
Japan
42,120 4.42 184 24.058