TOP500 Supercomputers, "Japan made" remains world#1

[Mitsuhide]

http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/

Rank Site Country/Year Computer / Processors Manufacturer Rmax Rpeak
1 Earth Simulator Center Japan/2002 Earth-Simulator / 5120 NEC 35860 40960

2 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States/2004 Thunder Intel Itanium2 Tiger4 1.4GHz - Quadrics / 4096 California Digital Corporation 19940 22938

3 Los Alamos National Laboratory United States/2002 ASCI Q - AlphaServer SC45, 1.25 GHz / 8192 HP 13880 20480

4 IBM - Thomas Watson Research Center United States/2004 BlueGene/L DD1 rototype (0.5GHz PowerPC 440 w/Custom) / 8192 IBM/ LLNL 11680 16384

5 NCSA United States/2003 Tungsten PowerEdge 1750, P4 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Myrinet / 2500 Dell 9819 15300

6 ECMWF United Kingdom/2004 eServer pSeries 690 (1.9 GHz Power4+) / 2112
IBM 8955 16051

7 Institute of Physical and Chemical Res. (RIKEN) Japan/2004 RIKEN Super Combined Cluster / 2048 Fujitsu 8728 12534

8 IBM - Thomas Watson Research Center United States/2004 BlueGene/L DD2 Prototype (0.7 GHz PowerPC 440) / 4096 IBM/ LLNL 8655 11469

9 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory United States/2003 Mpp2 Integrity rx2600 Itanium2 1.5 GHz, Quadrics / 1936 HP 8633 11616
10 Shanghai Supercomputer Center China/2004 Dawning 4000A, Opteron 2.2 GHz, Myrinet / 2560 Dawning 8061 11264


Earth Simulator
5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
shared memory inside the node
640 ¡Á 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
20 kVA power consumption per node
http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/








Highlights from TOP500 List for June 2004

All changes are from November 2003 to June 2004:


Highlights from the Top 10:

The Earth Simulator, built by NEC, remains the #1.
There are quite a few changes in the top 10 and the top500 in general:
A new #2 system - Thunder an Intel Itanium2 based cluster system at LLNL
At #4 and #8 are the prototypes for the upcoming IBM BlueGene/L system, the prototypes are a joint development of LLNL and IBM and are currently at IBM. The final system will be installed at LLNL and is expected to replace the EarthSimulator by June 2005 or even as early as the end of 2004
The #6 system is a new IBM p690 system with 1.9 GHz Power4+ processors. The first one worldwide. It is installed at the ECMWF in UK and brings Europe back into the top 10. It also reflects the fact that UK for the first time in a long time surpassed Germany as the European country with the most TOP500 systems - 36 over 34.
#7 is a second Japanese system build by Fujitsu and installed at RIKEN. It is special as it is a heterogeneous cluster with nodes of different capabilities which make it more challenging to achieve good performance. It is the first such system that high in the top500.
#10 is the first Chinese system ever to enter the top10. It is also assembled by a Chinese intergrator - Dawning. It is based on AMD's Opteron chip and LA based Myricom's Myrinet interconnect network.
The performance of the #10 system jumped to 8.06 up from 6.6 TF/s.
8 TF/s are not enough any more to enter the top10. The Linux Networx made Opteron based cluster at Los Alamos with 8.05 TF/s only made #11
The 'SuperMac' at Virginia Tech, which made a very impressive debut 6 month ago is off the list. At least temporarily. VT is replacing hardware and the new hardware was not in place for this TOP500 list.
General highlights from the Top 500:

The number of systems exceeding the 1 TFflop/s mark on the Linpack jump from 130, up to 242 - almost half the list.
The last system on the list with 624 GF/s GF/s was listed at position 242 in the last TOP500 just six month ago. This marks a record turn-over rate in the 11 year history of the TOP500.
Total accumulated performance is approaching the level of a Petaflop/s. It is now 813 TFlop/s, compared to 528 TFlop/s six month ago.
Entry level is now 624.3 GF/s, compared to 403.4 GF/s six month ago.
The entry point for the top 100 moved from 1.142 TF/s to 1.922 TF/s.
A total of 287 systems are now using Intel processors. 6 month ago there were 189 Intel based systems on the list and one year ago only 119.
Second most common processor family are IBM Power processor (75 system) ahead of PA Risc processors (57) and AMD processors (34).
291 systems are now labeld as cluster, up from 208. This makes clustered systems the most common architecture in the TOP500.
At present IBM and Hewlett-Packard sell the bulk of systems at all performance levels of the TOP500.
IBM became clear leader in this edition of the TOP500 list with 44.80% of system and 50.12% of installed performance
HP is second with 28% of systems and 18.5% of performance.
No other manufacturer is able to capture more than 6% in any category.
A new geographical trend which started the last few years emerges more cleary. The number of systems in Asian countries other than Japan is rising quite steadily. In this list Japan is listed with 34 systems and all other Asian countries accumulated an additional 55 systems. However Europe is still ahead of Asia with 124 systems installed.

[Chromo]

MINKIA!
E' fantascienza.
Pensa che chaos e che freddo li dentro!

ora so cosa voglio per natale.............

[mrmic]

Sembra una casa di cura per pc

[ciccio88]

10tb di ram
5120 processori
8000 metri quadrati
kissà in quanti mi codifica un divx

[Fradetti]

Interessante quella Classifica.... Come bisogna farle le prove?????

Ho in mente un ideuzza sovraumana

[Andytrendy]

Quello in foto dovrebbe essere la configurazione minima per far girare fluido Doom III

[Fradetti]

Secondo voi a fare un Cluster di XBoX con Linux quante ce ne vogliono per entrare nella classifica?????

[ally]

Originariamente inviato da Fradetti
Secondo voi a fare un Cluster di XBoX con Linux quante ce ne vogliono per entrare nella classifica?????

...troppi...l'xbox non ha un processore performante

[lucio68]

Originariamente inviato da Andytrendy
Quello in foto dovrebbe essere la configurazione minima per far girare fluido Doom III

Solo se monti la NV40, ma poi potresti avere problemi di alimentazione

[edivad82]

ho fatto uno stage per due settimane

385  Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS)
Switzerland/2002  pSeries 690 Turbo 1.3GHz / 256
IBM  736.6
1331.2

e cmq c'era anche un nec sx 4 e un nec sx 5

[rob66]

Originariamente inviato da ciccio88
10tb di ram
5120 processori
8000 metri quadrati
kissà in quanti mi codifica un divx

sisi per la serie...................


"quanti divx da convertire servono per occupare le cpu per 1/100 di secondo???"

[Fradetti]

Originariamente inviato da ally
...troppi...l'xbox non ha un processore performante

però è poco costosa e in giro ce ne sono tante..... basterebbe organizzare un mega raduno mondiale di possessori di Xbox e tentare la scalata alla classifica

[RiccardoS]

mi piace soprattutto il bollone rosso su ogni gabbiotto, che ricorda l'interfaccia di hal9000 su 2001 Odissea nello spazio.

[flisi71]

Originariamente inviato da Fradetti
però è poco costosa e in giro ce ne sono tante..... basterebbe organizzare un mega raduno mondiale di possessori di Xbox e tentare la scalata alla classifica

E con cosa le connetti, di grazia?

Ciao

Federico

[Mitsuhide]

Our university's SuperCom is ranked #24
NO.2 among the world universities

NO.1 is UCSD

24 Kyoto University
Japan/2004 PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 (1.56 GHz) / 1472
Fujitsu 4552 9185