The list of the world’s fastest supercomputers has been published. The Top500 organization publishes a list of the top 500 supercomputers twice a year. With the help of experts from Germany and the USA, the study conducted a Linpack benchmark study and published a report on the top 500. This post is about the top five supercomputers on the list:
1. Summit
The summit was launched last June by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is now the world’s most powerful and talented supercomputer. The Oak Ridge team said the system cost $200 million to build. It was the first supercomputer designed primarily for artificial intelligence applications. The speed of this IBM supercomputer is 148.6 petaflops.
2. Mountains
The Sierra supercomputer produced by IBM ranks second in the list of fastest supercomputers. It is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Its speed is 94.6 petaflops.
3. Sunway Thai Height
In 2017, China’s Sunway Pacific Wright ranked in the top 500 list as the world’s fastest and most powerful computing device. The supercomputer, housed at the country’s National Supercomputing Center, ranks third on this year’s list. The speed of the supercomputer developed by China’s National Parallel Computing and Technology Research Center is 93 petaflops.
4. Tianhe-2A (Galaxy-2A)
The Tianhe-2A (Galaxy-2A) computer, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China, was ranked fourth. The speed of the supercomputer developed by the China’s National University of Defense Technology is 61.4 petaflops.
5. Frontera
Frontier is the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world and is located at the Advanced Computing Center in Texas, USA. The Dell C6420 supercomputer uses Xeon Platinum processors. Its speed is 23.5 petaflops.
1 petaflop = 1000 teraflops or 1 million gigaflops.
