Top 10 supercomputers in the world
The latest Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world reveals that China has overtaken the US in terms of the number of powerful systems ranked.
China now leads the US by 202 to 143. It is the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed in the ranking.
The US decline takes it to its lowest level in 25 years.
Massive climb
Six months ago, the US led the race with 169 systems – while China sat at 160. This shows the strong growth of the country.
Japan finished in third place with 35, followed by Germany with 20, France with 18, and the UK with 15.
China has also overtaken the US in aggregate performance. The country now claims 35.4% of the list’s flops, with the US in second place with 29.6%.
The latest lists also marks the first time each of the top 10 supercomputers delivered more than 10 petaflops of performance.
181 systems managed a performance greater than one petaflop – up from 138 in June – while the combined performance of all 500 systems has grown to 845 petaflops.
This is compared to 749 petaflops six months ago, and 672 petaflops one year ago.
Other findings included:
- 102 systems employ accelerator/coprocessor technology, compared to 91 six months ago.
- 86 systems use Nvidia GPUs.
- 12 systems use Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor technology.
- 5 systems use PEZY Computing accelerators.
- 2 systems use a combination of Nvidia GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
The top 10 systems remain largely unchanged since June 2017, as shown below.
Sunway TaihuLight
- 93.01 petaflops
Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2)
- 33.86 petaflops
Piz Daint
- 19.59 petaflops
Gyoukou
- 19.14 petaflops
Titan
- 17.59 petaflops
Sequoia
- 17.17 petaflops
Trinity
- 14.14 petaflops
Cori
- 14.01 petaflops
Oakforest-PACS
- 13.55 petaflops
Fujitsu’s K computer
- 10.51 petaflops
Now read: Most powerful supercomputers in the world
Loading ...