HPCG - June 2018

The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark project is an effort to create a new metric for ranking HPC systems. HPCG is intended as a complement to the High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, currently used to rank the TOP500 computing systems. The computational and data access patterns of HPL are still representative of some important scalable applications, but not all. HPCG is designed to exercise computational and data access patterns that more closely match a different and broad set of important applications, and to give incentive to computer system designers to invest in capabilities that will have impact on the collective performance of these applications.

HPCG is a complete, stand-alone code that measures the performance of basic operations in a unified code:

  • Sparse matrix-vector multiplication.
  • Vector updates.
  • Global dot products.
  • Local symmetric Gauss-Seidel smoother.
  • Sparse triangular solve (as part of the Gauss-Seidel smoother).
  • Driven by multigrid preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm that exercises the key kernels on a nested set of coarse grids.
  • Reference implementation is written in C++ with MPI and OpenMP support.

For more details, please visit the HPCG page.

TOP 10 Sites for HPCG List June 2018

For more information about the sites and systems in the list, click on the links or view the complete list.

Rank TOP500 Rank System Cores Rmax (TFlop/s) HPCG (TFlop/s)
1 1 Summit - IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband, IBM
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States
2,282,544 122,300.00 2925.75
2 3 Sierra - IBM Power System S922LC, IBM POWER9 22C 3.1GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband, IBM / NVIDIA / Mellanox
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
1,572,480 71,610.00 1795.67
3 16 K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect, Fujitsu
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
Japan
705,024 10,510.00 602.74
4 9 Trinity - Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect , Cray/HPE
DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL
United States
979,968 14,137.30 546.12
5 5 AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) - PRIMERGY CX2550 M4, Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, Infiniband EDR, Fujitsu
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Japan
391,680 19,880.00 508.85
6 6 Piz Daint - Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA Tesla P100, Cray/HPE
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)
Switzerland
361,760 19,590.00 496.98
7 2 Sunway TaihuLight - Sunway MPP, Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz, Sunway, NRCPC
National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi
China
10,649,600 93,014.59 480.85
8 11 Nurion - Cray CS500, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Intel Omni-Path, Cray/HPE
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
South Korea
570,020 13,929.30 391.45
9 12 Oakforest-PACS - PRIMERGY CX1640 M1, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Intel Omni-Path, Fujitsu
Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing
Japan
556,104 13,554.60 385.48
10 10 Cori - Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect , Cray/HPE
DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC
United States
622,336 14,014.70 355.44