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