| Top500© 27th List: Top 10 Supercomputers as of June, 2008 | |||||
| Current | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Last June (2007) | new on list | 2 | new on list | new on list | 7 |
| Computer | Roadrunner | BlueGene/L | BlueGene/P | Ranger | Jaguar |
| Manufacturer | IBM | IBM | IBM | Sun Microsystems | Cray |
| Maximum Speed | 1.026 pf | 478.2 tf | 450.3 tf | 326.0 | 205.0 |
| Theoretical Speed | 1.375 pf | 596.4 tf | 557.1 tf | 503.8 | 260.2 |
| Country | USA | USA | USA | USA | USA |
| # of Processors | 6,562 AMD dual cores & 12,240 IBM Cell chips for a total of 122,400 cores | 212,992 | 163,840 | 62,976 | 30,976 |
| Who runs it | Department of Energy (US Gov.) Los Alamos National Laboratory | Department of Energy (US Gov.) Livermore National Laboratory | Department of Energy (US Gov.) Argonne National Laboratory | Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Location | Los Alamos, New Mexico | Livermore, California | Argonne, Illinois | Austin, Texas | Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
| Projects | Nuclear weapons stockpile | Nuclear weapons | scientific research in the physical, | Open science research | Cosmology |
| All programs have to be designed | Hydrodynamics | life, and environmental sciences | Climate studies | ||
| "from scratch" because of unique | Quantum chemistry | Nanostructures | |||
| combination of chip types | Molecular dynamics | Corning, Boeing & Dreamworks | |||
| Climate modeling | have projects for 2007 | ||||
| Financial modeling | |||||
| Website | http://www.lanl.gov/ | www.llnl.gov/ | http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ | http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/#ranger | http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ |
| Current | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Last June | 2 | new on list | 4 | new on list | new on list |
| Computer | JUGENE | Encanto | EKA | BlueGene/P | Turbomeca Pau |
| Manufacturer | IBM | SGI | Hewlett-Packard | IBM | SGI |
| Maximum Speed (tf) | 180.0 | 133.2 | 117.9 | 112.5 | 106.1 |
| Theoretical Speed (tf) | 222.8 | 172.0 | 170.9 | 139.3 | 122.9 |
| Country | Germany | USA | India | France | France |
| # of Processors | 65,536 | 14,336 | 14,240 | 40,960 | 10,240 |
| Who runs it | Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) | New Mexico Computing Applications Center University of New Mexico | Computational Research Laboratories | IDRIS, University of Paris | |
| Location | Juelich | Rio Rancho, New Mexico | Pune | Orsay | Pau |
| Projects | Used by over 200 European | Open research | Computer System Architecture & Design | Science research | Seismic analysis (energy drilling) |
| research groups - many types of | engineering | Computational research | |||
| research, for example: | Digital Media | ||||
| Medicine | Communication & Business Analytics | ||||
| Environmental Science | |||||
| Particle Physics | |||||
| Materials Science | |||||
| Website | www.fz-juelich.de | http://www.doit.state.nm.us/supercomputer_project.html | http://crlindia.com/index.htm | http://www.idris.fr/ | http://www.total.com/ |
| Top500© 27th List: Top 10 Supercomputers as of November, 2007 | |||||
| Current | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Last June (2007) | 1 | new on list | new on list | new on list | new on list |
| Computer | BlueGene/L | JUGENE | SGI Altix 8200 | EKA | Neolith |
| Manufacturer | IBM | IBM | SGI | Hewlett-Packard | Hewlett-Packard |
| Maximum Speed (tf) | 478.2 | 167.3 | 126.9 | 117.9 | 102.8 |
| Theoretical Speed (tf) | 596.4 | 222.8 | 172.0 | 170.9 | 146.4 |
| Country | USA | Germany | USA | India | Sweden |
| # of Processors | 212,992 | 65,536 | 14,336 | 14,240 | 13,728 |
| Who runs it | Department of Energy (US Gov.) | Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) | New Mexico Computing Applications Center | Computational Research Laboratories | Linköping University |
| Location | Livermore, California | Juelich | Rio Rancho, New Mexico | Pune | Linköping |
| Projects | Hydrodynamics | Used by over 200 European | High Tech Business | Computer System Architecture & Design | Natural Sciences |
| Quantum chemistry | research groups - many types of | Science and Technology Education | engineering | ||
| Molecular dynamics | research, for example: | Digital Media | |||
| Climate modeling | Medicine | Communication & Business Analytics | |||
| Financial modeling | Environmental Science | ||||
| Particle Physics | |||||
| Materials Science | |||||
| Website | www.llnl.gov/ | www.fz-juelich.de | www.doit.state.nm.us/supercomputer_project.html | http://crlindia.com/index.htm | www.nsc.liu.se/ |
| Current | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Last June | 3 | 2 | 4 | new on list | 5 |
| Computer | Red Storm | Jaguar | BGW (Watson Blue Gene) | New York Blue | |
| Manufacturer | Cray | Cray | IBM | Cray | IBM |
| Maximum Speed (tf) | 101.4 | 101.7 | 91.29 | 85.5 | 82.16 |
| Theoretical Speed (tf) | 127.41 | 119.35 | 114.69 | 100.5 | 103.22 |
| Country | USA | USA | USA | USA | |
| # of Processors | 127,411 | 23,016 | 40,960 | 19,320 | 36,864 |
| Who runs it | Sandia Labs (US Gov.) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | IBM (Corporation) | New York Center for Computional Sciences | |
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Oak Ridge, Tennessee | Yorktown Heights, New York | Stony Brook, New York | |
| Projects | Nuclear weapons | Cosmology | Life sciences (Genographic Project) | Education & Research | |
| Nonproliferation assessments | Climate studies | Hydrodynamics | Business computing yet undefined | ||
| Military technologies & apps | Nanostructures | Materials sciences | Note that name is correctly spelled | ||
| Homeland security | Corning, Boeing & Dreamworks | Quantum chemistry | Seawulf is a combo of Seawolf and | ||
| have projects for 2007 | Molecular dynamics | Beowulf | |||
| Fluid dynamics | |||||
| Business applications | |||||
| Website | www.sandia.gov/ | http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ | www.research.ibm.com/ | http://www.sunysb.edu/nyccs/ | |