Top
10 Super Computers using Linux
Here's
the latest list of the top 10 supercomputers in the world, basis
the ranking by top500. These mighty machines has been ranked on
the basis of their performance on the organisation's demanding
Linpack benchmark. And guess who is powering all these super
machines? Yes, it's the Linux kernel running in their veins!
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10.
Fermi
Based
at Italy's CINECA joint venture, Fermi is the first Blue Gene/Q-based
system on our list, clocking in at 1.72 petaflops driven by 163,840
PowerPC cores.
Runs on Linux.
9.
Tianhe-1A
The
only Chinese entry into this top 10, Tianhe-1A turned in a 2.56
petaflop performance mark, on the strength of its 186,368 Xeon
processor cores. It's also the first machine on this list to use
co-processors for additional performance -- 100,352 Nvidia 2050
cores, to be precise.
Runs on Linux.
8.
SuperMUC
A
hardy perennial of the Top500 list, SuperMUC is based at the Leibniz
Supercomputing Center near Munich. Clocking in at 2.89 petaflops,
it's powered by 147,456 Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
Runs on
Linux.
7.
JUQUEEN
Juelich-based
JUQUEEN eclipsed its German rival SuperMUC to capture the fifth spot
on the November list, posting a 4.14-petaflop mark on the Linpack
test. Unlike SuperMUC, it's powered by a 393,216-core Blue Gene/Q
system.
Runs on Linux.
6.
Stampede
Dell's
Stampede, which rode its new Intel Xeon Phi processors a total of
204,900 cores' worth to a 2.66 petaflop benchmark. Installed at the
University of Texas in Austin, Stampede also packs 112,500
accelerator cores as part of the Xeon Phi platform.
Runs on
Linux.
5.
Mira
Also
using the Blue Gene/Q architecture is Mira, of the Department of
Energy's Argonne National Laboratories. However, it packs
substantially more cores than JUQUEEN -- 786,432, to be exact -- in
return for a nearly doubled performance return of 8.16
petaflops.
Runs on Linux.
4.
K Computer
Dropping
to the third place is the Fujitsu K Computer, at Japan's RIKEN
Advanced Institute for Computational Sciences. Using 705,024 SPARC64
cores, it produced a Linpack score of 10.51 petaflops.
Runs on
Linux.
3.
Sequoia
The
first million-core system, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories'
Sequoia was once the top dog in the super computer list. It cranks
out a whopping 16.32 petaflops with its 1,572,864 processor cores.
Sequoia is the fourth and last Blue Gene/Q system on the latest
list.
Runs on Linux.
2.
Titan
The
appropriately named Titan is a Cray XK7 powerhouse, producing 17.59
petaflops of performance using 560,640 AMD Opteron processor cores
and 261,632 Nvidia K20x accelerators. It operates at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
Runs on Linux.
1.
Tianhe-2
A
supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense
Technology, is the world’s new No. 1 system with a performance of
33.86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, according to the
41stedition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of the world’s most
powerful supercomputers. The list was announced June 17 during the
opening session of the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference
in Leipzig, Germany.
Runs on Linux.
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