Posted on 11/12/2007 2:06:33 PM PST by ShadowAce
IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. (INTC) improved their standings Monday in the newest tally of the world's fastest 500 computers, a closely watched measure of progress in the industry.
The list, published twice a year by academic researchers, once again was topped by an IBM Corp. supercomputer in the Lawrence Livermore national nuclear lab. The BlueGene/L system, as it is known, was recently upgraded and showed the ability to perform at 478 teraflops - 478 trillion calculations per second.
That's tens of thousands of times faster than your average desktop PC today.
The No. 2 performer was an IBM supercomputer in a German research center that came in at 167 teraflops. No. 3 was a 127-teraflop system made by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGID) for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.
IBM accounted for 46 percent of the computers on the list, while HP had 33 percent. That reversed the standing on the last list, in June, when HP became the leading manufacturer in the top 500.
Such turnover is common given the mind-boggling rate of improvement in high-performance computing. The system that ranked 500th in the world on the new list would have been good enough for No. 255 just six months earlier.
Intel chips are the processors in 64 percent of the machines on the list, the largest share that the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has ever had. Its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), showed up in 16 percent of the top 500, down from 21 percent six months ago.
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| Rank | ||
|---|---|---|
| Site | Computer | |
| 1 | DOE/NNSA/LLNL United States |
BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution IBM |
| 2 | Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) Germany |
JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution IBM |
| 3 | SGI/New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) United States |
SGI Altix ICE 8200, Xeon quad core 3.0 GHz SGI |
| 4 | Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS India |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband Hewlett-Packard |
| 5 | Government Agency Sweden |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 2.66GHz, Infiniband Hewlett-Packard |
| 6 | NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories United States |
Red Storm - Sandia/ Cray Red Storm, Opteron 2.4 GHz dual core Cray Inc. |
| 7 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States |
Jaguar - Cray XT4/XT3 Cray Inc. |
| 8 | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center United States |
BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution IBM |
| 9 | NERSC/LBNL United States |
Franklin - Cray XT4, 2.6 GHz Cray Inc. |
| 10 | Stony Brook/BNL, New York Center for Computational Sciences United States |
New York Blue - eServer Blue Gene Solution IBM |
That's ten places in less than 6 months.
That is pretty amazing...
Ever wondered what Google’s search engine would rank in something like this? As I understand it, they have massive grid-type networks.
These systems all act as a single machine.
AMD has always played second fiddle to Intel. Intel likes AMD because they chanllenge Intel’s engineers.
Several of the systems on this list contain AMD processors.
AMD has come a long way since the K6-2
You need one of these to harness those super fast downloads your getting...
LOL. Naw, just a faster bigger graphics card :o) These two little intels are hummin along fine.
No, Intel likes AMD because they give them “inspiration.”
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