The document summarizes key details from the 37th TOP500 list including:
- The top 10 systems and their performance in petaflop/s.
- Annual performance increases and projected growth to exaflop/s systems by 2025.
- Market shares of leading vendors IBM, Cray, HP, Fujitsu and SGI.
- Performance and shares of countries/regions in the TOP500 including growth of Asian countries.
(AICS) missing in name of first entryPleiades were #11 last timeSystem configuration: - 672 computer cabinets, 68544 nodes - 1 node consists of 1 CPU - 8 cores/CPU - 6-D Mesh/Torus Interconnect SPARC64 VIIIfx CPU: - 8 cores/CPU - 128 GFlops @ 2GHz
Annual versus Moore’s Law1.85 versus 1.59
Fujitsu, Dell, and Dawning have 2 each
Satoshi just announced 2.4 PF/s system with nVidia FermiOct 2010 HP + nVidia + new features
Satoshi just announced 2.4 PF/s system with nVidia FermiOct 2010 HP + nVidia + new features
Satoshi just announced 2.4 PF/s system with nVidia FermiOct 2010 HP + nVidia + new features
#50 is ASCI Purple
Larger systems are more efficientInnovationin HPC is “top-down”
K computer: "K" here draws upon the Japanese word "Kei" for 1016(ten quadrillions), representing the system's performance goal of 10 petaflops. In its original sense, "Kei" expresses a large gateway in Japanese, and it is hoped that the system will be a new gateway to computational science.