Highlights from the TOP 10 - November 2007

  • The TOP10 shows five new systems and one substantially upgraded system with five of these changes placing at the top five positions.
  • The new No. 1 system is a significantly enlarged version of the previous No. 1 - the DOE's IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a Linpack performance of now 478.2 TFlop/s compared to 280.6 TFlop/s six months ago before its upgrade.
  • At No. 2 is a brand-new first installation of a newer version of the same type of IBM system. It is a BlueGene/P system installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and it achieved 167.3 TFlop/s.
  • The No. 3 system is not only new but the first system for a new center, the New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) in Rio Rancho, NM. It is built by SGI and based on the Altix ICE 8200 model. It was measured at 126.9 TFlop/s.
  • For the first time ever, India placed a system in the top10. The Computational Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India, installed a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. They integrated this system with their own innovative routing technology and achieved a performance of 117.9 TFlop/s.
  • This is the first system outside the US, Europe, or Japan to ever enter the TOP5.
  • The No.5 system is also a new Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system and installed at a Swedish government agency. It was measured at 102.8 TFlop/s.
  • The last new system in the TOP10 - at No. 9 - is a Cray XT4 system installed at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was ranked based on a Linpack performance of 85.4 TFlop/s.