| 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 |