| Top500©: Top 5 Supercomputers as of June 2010 | http://www.top500.org/ | ||||
| Current | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Last November (2009) | 1 | NEW | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Computer | Jaguar | Nebulae | Roadrunner | Kraken (Huge sea monster) | Jugene |
| Manufacturer | Cray | Dawning (Voltaire/IBM) | IBM | Cray | IBM |
| Maximum Speed | 1.759 pf | 1.271 pf | 1.105 pf | 831.7 tf | 825.5 tf |
| Theoretical Speed | 2.331 pf | 2.984 pf | 1.456 pf | 1.028 pf | 1.002 pf |
| Country | USA | China | USA | USA | Germany |
| # of Cores | 224,162 | 129,600 | 98,928 | 294,912 | |
| Who runs it | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | National Supercomputing Centre | Department of Energy (US Gov.) Los Alamos National Laboratory | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Forschungszentrum Juelich |
| Location | Oak Ridge, Tennessee | Shenzhen, China | Los Alamos, New Mexico | Oak Ridge, Tennessee | Juelich, Germany |
| Projects | Open scientific research in | Research - need information | Nuclear weapons stockpile | Academic research | Health, energy, environment |
| nanotechnology, biological | All programs have to be designed | and information technologies | |||
| systems, energy, etc. | "from scratch" because of unique | interdiciplinary research | |||
| combination of chip types | |||||
| Website | http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ | Need link | http://www.lanl.gov/ | http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken | http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/index.php?index=1096 |