Top500©: Top 5 Supercomputers as of November  2009			http://www.top500.org/
Current	1	2	3	4	5
Last June (2009)	2	1	6	3	new on list
Computer	Jaguar	Roadrunner	Kraken (Huge sea monster)	Jugene	Tianhe-1 (Milky way)
Manufacturer	Cray	IBM	Cray	IBM	National University of Defense Technology
Maximum Speed	1.759 pf	1.105 pf	831.7  tf	825.5 tf	563.1 tf
Theoretical Speed	2.331 pf	1.456 pf	1.028 pf	1.002 pf	1.206 pf
Country	USA	USA	USA	Germany	China
# of Cores	224,162	129,600	98,928	294,912	71,680
Who runs it	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Department of Energy (US Gov.) Los Alamos National Laboratory	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Forschungszentrum Juelich	National Supercomputer Center
Location	Oak Ridge, Tennessee	Los Alamos, New Mexico	Oak Ridge, Tennessee	Juelich, Germany	Tianjin, China
Projects	Open scientific research in	Nuclear weapons stockpile	Academic research	Health, energy, environment	Petroleum exploration
	nanotechnology, biological	All programs have to be designed		and information technologies	Large aircraft design
	systems, energy, etc.	"from scratch" because of unique		interdisciplinary research
		combination of chip types
Website	Jaguar	Roadrunner	Kraken	Jugene	Tianhe