BlueGene/L is still world’s fastest supercomputer
November 13, 2007 | Source: KurzweilAI
IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer continues its four-year domination of the official
TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list for 2007, announced today.
BlueGene/L racks being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Bob Hirschfeld/LLNL)
The IBM supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was expanded this summer to deliver a sustained performance of 478.2 teraflops, up from 280.6 teraflops in June.
The No. 2 computer in the world — and Europe’s fastest — is the new first-time installation of Blue Gene/P, a sister machine to Blue Gene/L, located at Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany, with a sustained performance of 167 teraflops.
For the first time ever, India placed a system in the Top 10. Computational Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd., installed a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system, achieveing 117.9 TFlop/s performance.
Dominant countries in Asia are Japan with 20 systems (down from 23), Taiwan with 11 (up from 10), China with 10 systems (down from 13), and India with nine systems (up from eight).