November 2006

On the new list, the IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), retains the No. 1 spot with a Linpack performance of 280.6 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second, or Tflop/s).

The new No. 2 systems is Sandia National Laboratories’ Cray Red Storm supercomputer, only the second system ever to be recorded to exceed the 100 Tflops/s mark with 101.4 Tflops/s. The initial Red Storm system was ranked No. 9 in the last listing.

Slipping to No. 3 from No. 2 last June is the IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution system, installed at IBM’s Thomas Watson Research Center with 91.20 Tflops/s Linpack performance.

The new No. 5 is the largest system in Europe, an IBM JS21 cluster installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The system reached 62.63 Tflops/s.

Sandia’s Dell PowerEdge system was re-measured at 53 Tflops/s and was able to hold on to No. 6 spot.

The NovaScale 5160 system built by the French company Bull and installed at France’s Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) slipped to No. 7, despite a new Linpack measurement of 52.84 Tflops/s. The original system debuted in the No. 5 position in June.

No. 9 is now occupied by the largest system in Japan, a cluster integrated by NEC based on Sun Fire X4600 with Opteron processors, ClearSpeed accelerators, and an InfiniBand interconnect. The system is installed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The current No. 10 system is the upgraded Cray XT3 system at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 43.48 Tflop/s. It would have been ranked at No. 5 in June, and one year ago its predecessor was also No. 10 with just 20.53 Tflop/s.

The Earth Simulator, built by NEC, which held the No. 1 spot for five lists, has now slipped out of the TOP10 and is ranked at No 14.

TOP 10 Sites for November 2006

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Rank System Cores Rmax (TFlop/s) Rpeak (TFlop/s) Power (kW)
1 BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
131,072 280.60 367.00 1,433
2 Red Storm - Sandia/ Cray Red Storm, Opteron 2.4 GHz dual core, Cray/HPE
NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories
United States
26,544 101.40 127.41
3 BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
United States
40,960 91.29 114.69 448
4 ASC Purple - eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz, IBM
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
12,208 75.76 92.78 1,992
5 MareNostrum - BladeCenter JS21 Cluster, PPC 970, 2.3 GHz, Myrinet, IBM
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Spain
10,240 62.63 94.21
6 Thunderbird - PowerEdge 1850, 3.6 GHz, Infiniband, DELL EMC
NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories
United States
9,024 53.00 64.97
7 Tera-10 - NovaScale 5160, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics, EVIDEN
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
France
9,968 52.84 63.80
8 Columbia - SGI Altix 1.5 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband, HPE
NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
United States
10,160 51.87 60.96
9 TSUBAME Grid Cluster - Sun Fire x4600 Cluster, Opteron 2.4/2.6 GHz and ClearSpeed Accelerator, Infiniband, NEC/Sun
GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
11,088 47.38 82.12
10 Jaguar - Cray XT3, 2.6 GHz dual Core, Cray/HPE
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States
10,424 43.48 54.20