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Chinas 2014 HPC TOP100 list in English

By: TOP500 Team

The latest list of the top 100 HPC systems in China has now been released in English, exclusively on TOP500.org. The list is released by the Specialty Association of Mathematical & Scientific Software (SAMSS), CSIA.

Here are some of the highlights of the 2014 list:

  • The total Linpack performance of China’s TOP100 systems is 68.5 Petaflops, with 67 new systems entering the list.
  • There are 3 systems on the list that achieved more than one Petaflops in Linpack performance and 3 systems in peak performance.
  • The No.1 system is still Tianhe-2 from NUDT installed at Guangzhou.
  • The No.100 system has a Linpack performance higher than 206 TFlops.
  • The average Linpack performance of the TOP100 list is 684 TFlops.
  • Almost all systems use cluster architecture. There are 6 systems using heterogeneous architecture in the TOP10 and only 7 systems in the TOP100.
  • Sugon and Lenovo both have 32 systems and therefore the largest system share in the TOP100 list.
  • Sugon, Lenovo and Inspur together have a 85% share of all TOP100 systems.
  • The major application areas are internet service, supercomputing center, government, etc.

Please download the full list here.