June 2007

For the fourth straight time, the BlueGene/L System development by IBM and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., claimed the No. 1 spot. The BlueGene/L reached a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 TFlop/s (“teraflops” or trillions of calculations per second). Two other systems exceeded the level of 100 TFlop/s: the upgraded Cray XT4/XT3 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ranked No. 2 with a benchmark performance of 101.7 TFlop/s; and Sandia National Laboratory’s Cray Red Storm system, which ranked third at 101.4 TFlop/s.

Two new IBM BlueGene/L systems entered the Top 10, at the New York Center for Computational Science in Stony Brook, NY, (ranked No. 5) and at the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, (ranked No. 7). These two systems represent the largest supercomputing installations in an academic setting. Also new to the Top 10 is a Dell system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, ranked No. 8.

The fastest supercomputer in Europe is an IBM JS21 cluster at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, which ranked No. 9 at 62.63 TFlop/s. Rounding out the Top 10 is a new SGI system installed at the Leibniz Computer Center in Munich, Germany, with performance of 56.52. TFlop/s.

The highest ranked Japanese system is located at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and ranks No. 14 on the list. This system is a cluster integrated by NEC based on Sun Fire x4600 with Opteron processors, ClearSpeed accelerators and an InfiniBand interconnect.

More information about this TOP500 release can be found in the press release and related news. Additionally the highlights page provides an overview of changes since the last TOP500 release.

TOP 10 Sites for June 2007

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

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 Jaguar - Cray XT4/XT3, Cray/HPE
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States
23,016 101.70 119.35
3 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
4 BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
United States
40,960 91.29 114.69 448
5 New York Blue - eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM
Stony Brook/BNL, New York Center for Computational Sciences
United States
36,864 82.16 103.22 403
6 ASC Purple - eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz, IBM
DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
12,208 75.76 92.78 1,992
7 eServer Blue Gene Solution, IBM
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations
United States
32,768 73.03 91.75 358
8 Abe - PowerEdge 1955, 2.33 GHz, Infiniband, Windows Server 2008/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, DELL EMC
NCSA
United States
9,600 62.68 89.59
9 MareNostrum - BladeCenter JS21 Cluster, PPC 970, 2.3 GHz, Myrinet, IBM
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Spain
10,240 62.63 94.21
10 HLRB-II - Altix 4700 1.6 GHz, HPE
Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Germany
9,728 56.52 62.26 990