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    26th Top 500 Supercomputer List revealed (Nov 2005)

    * The list shows again a major shake-up of the TOP10
    * Only six of the TOP10 systems from November 2004 are still large enough to hold on to a TOP10 position, four new systems entered the top tier.
    * The new and previous No. 1 is DOE's IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It has doubled in size (again) and has now achieved a record Linpack performance of 280.6 TFlop/s. It is still the only system ever to exceed the 100 TFlop/s mark.
    * The No. 2 is a similar but smaller IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution system, installed at IBM’s Thomas Watson Research Center with 91.20 TFlop/s Linpack performance.
    * The new No. 3 is the ASCI Purple system at LLNL, also built by IBM , but based on the pSeries 575 servers. It reached 63.4 TFlop/s.
    * The Columbia system at NASA/Ames built by SGI slipped to the No. 4 spot, with a still equally impressive 51.87 TFlop/s.
    * Two systems at DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories occupy Nos. 5 and 6. A new PowerEdge-based Dell system outperformed the enlarged ASCI Red Storm system by a narrow margin with 36.10 Tflops/s versus 35.86 Tflop/s.
    * The Earth Simulator, built by NEC, which held the No. 1 spot for five lists, has now slipped to No. 7.
    * The No. 10 spot is occupied by a Cray XT3 system at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 20.53 Tflop/s. This is also the new entry level for the TOP10, up from just under 10 TFlop/s Linpack performance one year ago.













    The list: http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic
    #1 is BlueGene/L (131,072 processors; 280 TFLOPS) - DOE/LLNL
    #2 is BlueGene Solution (40,960 processors; 91.2 TFLOPS) - IBM (private)
    #3 is ASC Purple (10,240 processors; 63.3 TFLOPS) - DOE/LLNL

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  • #2
    The trends are what are most amazing.

    2004:


    2005:
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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    • #3
      And what's happening to Europe? Can't keep up!

      The ultimate in meaningless jingoistic geek cred.
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      • #4
        We have less of an obsessive need to engage in penis contests.
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        • #5
          It's more than penis contests, it's about research.
          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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          • #6
            First you lose the penis contest. Then you lose the supercomputer contest.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #7
              Unless there has been a through multinational study proving the opposite, I assume we make more efficient use of our supercomputers. And Arianne V is still the most aesthetically pleasing rocket out there.
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              • #8
                It's like the Swimsuit Edition for Asher
                Monkey!!!

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                • #9
                  What is sum?
                  sum of the top 500?
                  It seems ive been Dansed.
                  Or more precisely, your pictures are semi-random so I can't get the graph I was mentionning to appear again, which was by far the most interesting...
                  Anyway the one I was referring too is the
                  Performance Development as of November 2005

                  Projected Performance Development

                  seems the 3 functions are almost pure exponentials (with the top having a bit more variance with a higher base also it seems)

                  Some quick mental calculation give a doubling time of about a year?
                  (1000x increase over 10 years...)
                  Last edited by Lul Thyme; November 14, 2005, 16:10.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Colon
                    And Arianne V is still the most aesthetically pleasing rocket out there.
                    Why? Cos its always blowing up spectacularly?
                    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                    • #11
                      - | TOP500
                      http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/trends.php


                      Total accumulated performance has grown to 2.30 PFlop/s, compared to 1.69 PFlop/s six months ago and 1.127 PFlop/s one year ago.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #12
                        Seems to match the doubling every year pattern almost perfectly...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Dauphin


                          Why? Cos its always blowing up spectacularly?
                          No, because it's nicely shaped, with the dimensions in the right proportions and a whole bunch of cool flags painted on it.
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                          • #14
                            To be fair, it only blows up spectacularly about 20% of the time.
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #15


                              In all seriousness, what's that "Not Specified" about?
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