Always thinking that you have the fastest computer compared to your friends~??
Or you wanna know what’s (ACTUALLY) the FASTEST super-computer on the Earth~?? Then you should read this one first~…
It’s called the TOP500 Project~ It’s a project to collect the 500 fastest super-computers on the Earth~…
The project began in 1993 and updates its list of super-computers twice a year~… The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim (Germany), Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory~… The first updates always coincides with and are presented in the International Supercomputing Conference in June~ And since June 1993 its lists are based on site and vendor submissions only~…
For June 2009~ The fastest super-computer on the Earth would be IBM® Roadrunner™~…
So this are the TOP 10 super-computers on the Earth currently~…
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IBM® Roadrunner™  |
| System Name | Roadrunner |
| Site | DOE/NNSA/LANL  |
| System Family | IBM Cluster |
| System Model | BladeCenter QS22 Cluster |
| Computer | BladeCenter QS22 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i GHz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband |
| Vendor | IBM |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2008 |
| Operation System | Linux |
| Interconnect | Infiniband |
| Processor | PowerXCell 8i 3200 MHz (12.8 GFlops) |
Photos: Wikipedia, Los Alamos National Laboratory
News: IBM®, CNET® News, ComputerWorld
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| Cray® Jaguar™ |
| System Name | Jaguar |
| Site | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| System Family | Cray XT |
| System Model | Cray XT5 QuadCore |
| Computer | Cray XT5 QC 2.3 GHz |
| Vendor | Cray Inc. |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2008 |
| Operation System | CNL |
| Interconnect | XT4 Internal Interconnect |
| Processor | AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core 2300 MHz (9.2 GHz) |
Photos: OAK Ridge Lab
News: NCCS, ComputerWorld, The Register®
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| JUGENE – Jüelicher BlueGene/P |
| System Name | JUGENE |
| Site | Forschungszentrum Jüelich (FZJ)  |
| System Family | IBM BlueGene |
| System Model | BlueGene/P |
| Computer | BlueGene/P Solution |
| Vendor | IBM |
| Application Area | Research |
| Installation Year | 2007 |
| Operation System | CNK/SLES 9 |
| Interconnect | Proprietary |
| Processor | PowerPC 450 850 MHz (3.4 GFlops) |
Photos: Jülich SuperComputer Centre, Top500
News: Wikipedia, IBM®, IBM® Germany
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| SGI® Pleiades™ |
| System Name | Pleiades |
| Site | NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS |
| System Family | SGI Altix |
| System Model | SGI Altix ICE 8200 |
| Computer | SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC 3.0/2.66 GHz |
| Vendor | SGI |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2008 |
| Operation System | SLES10 + SGI ProPack 5 |
| Interconnect | Infiniband |
| Processor | Intel EM64T Xeon E54xx (Harpertown) 3000 MHz (12 GFlops) |
Photos: Broxtonix
News: NAS (NASA Advanced Supercomputing), NASA News, SGI®, BNET
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| IBM® BlueGene/L |
| System Name | BlueGene/L |
| Site | DOE/NNSA/LLNL |
| System Family | IBM BlueGene |
| System Model | BlueGene/L |
| Computer | eServer Blue Gene Solution |
| Vendor | IBM |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2007 |
| Operation System | CNK/SLES 9 |
| Interconnect | Proprietary |
| Processor | PowerPC 440 700 MHz (2.8 GFlops) |
Photos: CNET® News
News: Wikipedia, Advanced Simulation and Computing
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| Cray® Kraken™ |
| System Name | Kraken XT5 |
| Site | National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee |
| System Family | Cray XT |
| System Model | Cray XT5 QuadCore |
| Computer | Cray XT5 QC 2.3 GHz |
| Vendor | Cray Inc. |
| Application Area | Research |
| Installation Year | 2008 |
| Operation System | CNL |
| Interconnect | XT4 Internal Interconnect |
| Processor | AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core 2300 MHz (9.2 GFlops) |
Photos: OAK Ridge Lab
News: University of Tennessee, HPCwire, Knoxville Biz, ScienceDaily
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| IBM® Intrepid™ (BlueGene/P Solution) |
| System Name | BlueGene/P Solution |
| Site | Argonne National Laboratory |
| System Family | IBM BlueGene |
| System Model | BlueGene/P |
| Computer | Blue Gene/P Solution |
| Vendor | IBM |
| Application Area | Research |
| Installation Year | 2007 |
| Operation System | CNK/SLES 9 |
| Interconnect | Proprietary |
| Processor | PowerPC 450 850 MHz (3.4 GFlops) |
Photos: SciDAC
News: Argone National Lab, Wikipedia
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| Sun Constellation System® Ranger™ |
| System Name | Ranger |
| Site | Texas Advanced Computing Center/University of Texas |
| System Family | Sun Blade System |
| System Model | Sun Blade x6420 |
| Computer | Sun Blade x6420, Opteron QC 2.3 GHz, Infiniband |
| Vendor | Sun Microsystems |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2008 |
| Operation System | Linux |
| Interconnect | Infiniband |
| Processor | AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core 2300 MHz (9.2 GFlops) |
Photos: Wikipedia, TACC
News: Sun® Microsystems, Sun® HPC Blog, TACC, HPCwire
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| IBM® Dawn™ |
| System Name | Dawn |
| Site | DOE/NNSA/LLNL |
| System Family | IBM BlueGene |
| System Model | BlueGene/P |
| Computer | Blue Gene/P Solution |
| Vendor | IBM |
| Application Area | Research |
| Installation Year | 2009 |
| Operation System | CNK/SLES 9 |
| Interconnect | Proprietary |
| Processor | PowerPC 450 850 MHz (3.4 GFlops) |
Photos: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
News: LLNL, eWeek, The Register®
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| JUROPA (Jülich Research on Petaflop Architectures) |
| System Name | JUROPA |
| Site | Forschungszentrum Jüelich (FZJ)  |
| System Family | Sun-Bull-ParTec Cluster |
| System Model | NovaScale R422-E2/Sun Blade 6048 system |
| Computer | Sun Constellation, NovaScale R422-E2, Intel Xeon X5570, 2.93 GHz, Sun M9/Mellanox QDR Infiniband/Partec Parastation |
| Vendor | Bull SA |
| Application Area | Not Specified |
| Installation Year | 2009 |
| Operation System | SUSE Linux |
| Interconnect | Infiniband QDR Sun M9 / Mellanox / ParTec |
| Processor | Intel EM64T Xeon X55xx (Nehalem-EP) 2930 MHz (11.72 GFlops) |
Photos: Forschungszentrum Jülich
News: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
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Well~ Those are the TOP 10 FASTEST super-computers on the Earth currently in June 2009~ With the fastest super-computer (IBM® Roadrunner™ respectively) could reach a top performance of 1,456,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second (1.456 petaflops)~… Or in non-technical term~ It could calculate and solve 1,456,000,000,000,000 complicated unique calculations in 1 second~!!
From those TOP 10 super-computers~ 8 out of 10 are located in the United States~ While the rest 2 are located in the Germany~ The next TOP super-computers would be (in ascending —right column would be the location):
| Cray® Franklin™ | NERSC/LBNL |
| Cray® Jaguar™ XT4 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Cray® Red Storm™ | NNSA/Sandia National Laboratories |
| IBM® Shaheen™ | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology  |
| Magic Cube™ | Shanghai Supercomputer Center  |
| IBM® GPC (iDataPlex™) | SciNet/University of Toronto  |
| SGI® Encanto™ | New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) |
| Hewlett-Packard® EKA | Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS  |
| Appro Juno | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| SGI® Jade™ | Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif – Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (GENCI-CINES)  |
Interesting to know~ IBM® Shaheen™ which is based on IBM® BlueGene/P Solution owned by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology becomes the fastest super-computer in Asia currently~ Ranked 14th~ Above China’s Magic Cube™~… NO Japan-based super-computer in those TOP 20 above because the fastest super-computer located in Japan which is NEC® Earth Simulator™ is ranked 22nd~…
For the FULL list you can read it in here:
Now I am wondering when Indonesia will have its own super-computer~… 
Written by: Yofan Pratama P
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