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Supercomputers – Prestige Objects or Crucial Tools for Science and Industry? (Paper)

Posted by: Anas Nashif 11 months ago

This paper is the revised and extended version of the Lorraine King Memorial Lecture Hans Werner Meuer was invited by Lord Laird of Artigarvan to give at the House of Lords, London, on April 18, 2012.

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Lawrence Livermore’s Sequoia Supercomputer Towers above the Rest in Latest TOP500 List

Posted by: Anas Nashif 11 months, 1 week ago

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.

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The TOP500 Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Will it Survive 20 More?

Posted by: Anas Nashif 1 year ago

An exclusive interview with TOP500’s Hans Meuer

By Tom Tabor, CEO and Founder, Tabor Communications Inc.

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China Grabs Supercomputing Leadership Spot in Latest Ranking of World’s Top 500 Supercomputers

Posted by: Anas Nashif 2 years, 7 months ago

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 36th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers confirms the rumored takeover of the top spot by the Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, achieving a performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). 

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China’s new Nebulae Supercomputer is No. 2, right on the Tail of ORNL’s Jaguar in Newest TOP500 List of Fastest Supercomputers

Posted by: Anas Nashif 3 years ago

HAMBURG, Germany—China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena have become obvious with a system called Nebulae, build from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs. Nebulae is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 PFlop/s. With a Linpack performance of 1.271 PFlop/s it holds the No. 2 spot on the 35th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list of supercomputers.

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