Top500.org List Preview

A sneak peak at the world’s fastest systems.

Bryan Richard

Monday, November 13th, 2006

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While the formal list hasn’t been announced yet, the Top500.org site has posted a list of pre-release highlights.

Notable:

The DOE’s LLNL IBM BlueGene/L system retains a firm grasp on the No. 1 position.

Sandia’s Cray Red Storm leaps from No. 9 to No. 2.

Maybe size is everything: The largest system in Europe, an IBM JS21 cluster, makes it as high as No. 5.

The combined processing power of all systems on the list vaulted to 3.54 petaflop/s, nearly a full PFlop gain over the 2.79 PFlop/s achieved with the list prior, just six months ago.

The number of Infiniband systems more than double! Jumping from 36 to 78.

The full list will be released tomorrow at a SC06 Birds-of-a-Feather session.

Bryan Richard is a writer and software developer, avid runner, pretty good cook, and has a habit of buying more books than he can read. He's also the VP of Community and Infrastructure for Linux Magazine. If you like you can drop him a note.