{"id":216852,"date":"2017-07-01T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216852"},"modified":"2017-07-01T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:30:36","slug":"most-powerful-supercomputers-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/216852-most-powerful-supercomputers-in-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Most powerful supercomputers in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOP500<\/strong><\/a> has released its ranking of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers, based on the Linpack benchmark.<\/p>\n

The benchmark is a measure of a system’s computing power – how fast a computer solves “a dense n by n system of linear equations Ax = b”.<\/p>\n

A good personal computer has a performance of around 100 gigaflops. The top supercomputers offer petaflops of computing power (1 petaflop = 1,000,000 gigaflops).<\/p>\n

The Sunway TaihuLight, a system developed by China\u2019s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology and installed at the National Supercomputer Center, took top spot.<\/p>\n

With a Linpack performance of 93 petaflops, TaihuLight is easily the most powerful number-cruncher on the planet.<\/p>\n

The top 10 systems in the ranking are detailed below.<\/p>\n

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1. Sunway TaihuLight – 93 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A system developed by China\u2019s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology.<\/p>\n

\"Sunway<\/a><\/p>\n

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2. Tianhe-2 – 33.9 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A system developed by China\u2019s National University of Defense Technology and deployed at the National Supercomputer Center.<\/p>\n

\"Tianhe-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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3. Piz Daint – 19.6 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A Cray XC50 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.<\/p>\n

\"Piz-Daint\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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4. Titan – 19.6 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A Cray XK7 system installed at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"Titan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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5. Sequoia – 17.2 petaflops<\/h3>\n

An IBM BlueGene\/Q system installed at the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"Sequoia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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6. Cori – 14.0 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A Cray XC40 system housed at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.<\/p>\n

\"Cray<\/a><\/p>\n

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7. Oakforest-PACS – 13.6 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A Fujitsu PRIMERGY system running at Japan\u2019s Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing.<\/p>\n

\"Oakforest-PACS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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8. Fujitsu\u2019s K computer – 10.5 petaflops<\/h3>\n

Installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science.<\/p>\n

\"Fujitsu-K-computer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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9. Mira – 8.6 petaflops<\/h3>\n

An IBM BlueGene\/Q system installed at the Department of Energy\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"mira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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10. Trinity – 8.1 petaflops<\/h3>\n

A Cray XC40 system running at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"Trinity\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0South African duo to break ground in co-production with supercomputer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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