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TOP500 List Highlights - November 2002

All changes are from June 2002 to November 2002

 

Highlights from the Top 10:

  • The Earth Simulator build by NEC remains the unchallenged #1.
  • 2 segments of the ASCI Q at Los Alamos are new at #2 and #3 with 7.7 TF/s Linpack each.
  • 2 new PC cluster made the TOP 10:
    • #5 is a Linux NetworX/Quadrics cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
    • #8 is a HPTi/Myrinet cluster at the FSL/NOAA.
  • Two other systems are new in the TOP10:
    • at #9 a IBM Power4 system installed in UK at the HPCx Consortium,
    • at #10 a IBM Power4 system installed at NCAR.
  • 3.2 TF/s are needed to enter the top 10.
  • Hewlett-Packard has 4 systems in the TOP 10 followed by IBM with 3 systems, and one from NEC, Linux NetworX, and HPTi each.
  • ASCI Red which was in the top 10 since June 1997 (7 times as #1) dropped out of the top 10.
  • 7 of the TOP 10 systems are installed in the US, and one in Japan, France and UK each.

General highlights from the Top 500:

  • The number of systems exceeding the 1 TFflop/s mark on the Linpack is now 47 up from to 23 just 6 month ago.
  • 100 systems have peak performance above 1 TFlop/s up from 70 systems 6 month ago
  • The last system on the list with 195.8 GF/s was listed at position 318 in the last TOP500 just 6 month ago.
  • Total accumulated performance is 293 TFlop/s compared to 222 TFlop/s 6 month ago.
  • Entry level is now 195.8 GF/s compared to 134.3 GF/s 6 month ago.
  • The entry point for the top100 moved from 447 GF/s to 558 GF/s.
  • PC Cluster are now present at all levels of performance.
  • A total of 55 Intel based and 8 AMD based PC cluster are in the TOP500.
  • Including 4 Sun and 3 Alpha based clusters and 23 HP AlphaServer, the number of clusters in the top500 grew further to 93 from 80 systems.
  • 14 of these clusters are labeled as 'Self-Made'.
  • The number of systems at industrial customers fell slightly to 226 systems down from 248 6 month ago and 261 one year ago.
  • The US keeps it's prime position as supercomputer user (46% of systems and 51% of installed performance) and producer (91% of systems) with only little changes in geographical distribution.
  • Despite the large performance of the ES, Japan is third in installed performance and number of systems behind Europe.
  • IBM is still leading the list with respect to the installed performance with a stable share of 31.8% ahead of HP 22.1% and NEC with 14.6%.
  • Hewlett-Packard stays slightly ahead of IBM with respect to the number of systems installed (HP 137 and IBM 131). Sun is third with 88systems.
  • No other manufacturer is able to capture more than 10% in any category.