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/