8th edition of the Top 50 list of the most powerful computers in Russia released

The Research Computing Centre of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Joint Supercomputer Centre of the Russian academy of science announce the release of the 8th edition of the Top 50 list of the most powerful computers in Russia and CIS (former Soviet Union countries).

The 8th edition of the list shows a skyrocketing increase of performance of the most powerful computers in Russia and CIS. Total Linpack performance has increased from 61.6 TFlops to 197.3 TFlops (by 220.3%) within half a year - an unparalleled increase for the entire life of the list. New systems, including those upgraded over the last half a year, comprise 56% of the list (28 out of 50 installations).

The most significant changes as compared to the previous edition affected the top section of the list. The top five of the most powerful supercomputers in CIS are all completely new. As a result, total Linpack performance of Top5 has increased from 31.2TFlops up to 117.1 TFlops (by 275.4%).

Click here for more information and the complete TOP50 list.

Note: The list is in russian, use the following link (google) for a translation into english.