Top Super Computers in the world
By maverickmonk
How does a super computer work?
HP's EKA is amongs the Asias top performer, ranked @ 18 in top performers
8 of the top 10 supercomputers are located in the United States.
According to IBM, in the past 10 years, The power of Supercomputers has increased by 1,000 times.
IBM Roadrunner
- IBM - Supercomputer - United States
A supercomputer designed by IBM for the U.S.
Jaguar
- National Center for Computational Sciences » Jaguar
The most powerful computing and supercomputing resource in the world for open scientific research.
Jugene
- Juelicher BlueGeneP
JUGENE is Juelicher BlueGeneP is the third fastest in the world.
Pleiades
- NAS Computing Resources - Pleiades Supercomputer
Technical description of the Pleiades SGI supercomputer operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center. Its One of the most powerful general-purpose supercomputers ever built
BlueGene/L
Blue Gene/P Solution
- IBM System Blue Gene Solution
IBM® System Blue Gene®/P Solution is a follow-on product to the successful Blue Gene Solution, and adheres to the original key design points set forth in the Blue Gene program. Specifically, the Blue Gene family of supercomputers has
Ranger
Juropa
- Juropa
ISC Supercomp
Tianhe-I
- Tianhe-I
Tianhe-1A which means milkyway. It is equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. It runs on the Linux-based operating system. It achieved a computing speed of 2,570 trillion calculations per second
Nebulae
- Nebulae
Based on a TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processors and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, the machine clocks 1.27 etaflop/s
Tsubame 2.0
- Tokyo University Introduces Its Tsubame 2.0 Supercomputer
The Tokyo Institute of Technology has revealed that its next-generation supercomputer will begin operations in the fall, dubbed Tsubame 2.0. In case you're wondering, it'll boast 2,816 six-core, 2.96GHz Xeon 5600 processors, along with 4,224 units of
Hopper - Cray XE6 12
- Cray XE6 - qmcpack
DOEs National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center in California. The machine has achieved a performance of 1.05 petaflop/s, making it the second most powerful system in the US.
Tera-100
- http://www.wcm.bull.com/internet/pr/rend.jsp?DocId=567851&lang=en
The machine features 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processing cores, 300TB of central memory and a total storage capacity of over 20PB. It has a clock speed of 1.25 petaflops. Tera 100 is used for the nuclear weapons simulation programme in Fance. It help
Cielo - Cray XE6
- Cray Technical Workshop 2010
Its an updated version of the Cray XT6 supercomputer. Unveiled in May 2010, the machine runs on Linux operating system and is powered by AMD x86-64 Opteron 8 Core 2400 MHz (9.6 GFlops) processor.
tetragrammatron 2 years ago
can a supercomputer scratch its arse or pick its nose change a nappy nay i think not but a human can