Open AccessTOP500 Supercomputers for June 2003
Author(s) -
Erich Strohmaier,
Hans Werner Meuer,
Jack Dongarra,
Horst D. Simon
Publication year - 2003
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/860795
Subject(s) - supercomputer , benchmark (surveying) , national laboratory , operating system , computer science , engineering , engineering physics , geography , cartography
21st Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released MANNHEIM, Germany; KNOXVILLE, Tenn.;&BERKELEY, Calif. In what has become a much-anticipated event in the world of high-performance computing, the 21st edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today (June 23, 2003). The Earth Simulator supercomputer built by NEC and installed last year at the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, with its Linpack benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s (teraflops or trillions of calculations per second), retains the number one position. The number 2 position is held by the re-measured ASCI Q system at Los Alamos National Laboratory. With 13.88 Tflop/s, it is the second system ever to exceed the 10 Tflop/smark. ASCIQ was built by Hewlett-Packard and is based on the AlphaServerSC computer system