Top Five Supercomputers 2016.
Supercomputers. |
I was just bored and randomly searching on the web about
computer science and stumbled upon this Wikipedia Article about top super
computer. Now this list is decided on the speed of processing they do, the
amount of data they can store and standard ways of configuration were used. So
here goes;
Sunway TaihuLight |
1. Sunway
TaihuLight: It is a Chinese supercomputer that , as of June 2016, ranks the
fastest supercomputer In the world. It has a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93
petaflops. Thrice the previous record holder. It means that it could make 93
quadrillions calculations per second. This indigenously made Chinese system
would be used for various research and engineering work, in areas such as
climate, weather and earth systems modeling, life science research, and
advanced manufacturing.
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Tianhe-2/Milky Way 2 |
2. Tianhe-2:
Again a Supercomputer developed by China.
It was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology. Its
System performance is 33.86 petaflops on LINPACK rating.
It was built in collaboration with Chinese
IT firm Inspur. It will be used for simulation, analysis and government
security applications.
Titan |
3.
Titan: It is Super computer built by Cray at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. It is a successor of Jaguar, a previous Super Computer
at Oak Ridge. It uses GPU in addition to conventional central processing unit.
Its System LINPACK rating is 17.59 petaflops. Titan employs AMD Opteron CPU in
conjunction with Nvidia Tesla GPUs improve energy efficiency while providing
while an order of magnitude increase in computational power over
Jaguar. It was developed for scientific purposes
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IBM Sequoia |
4.
IBM Sequoia: It is built by IBM for the purpose
of National Nuclear Security Administration as a part of the Advance Simulation
and Computing program. Its System LINPACK rating is 16.32 petaflops. The
Systems runs Linux.
K Computers |
5.
K computer: It is built by Fujitsu. It is
derived by the word k which means 10 quadrillion in Japanese.Its System LINPACK
rating is 10.51 petaflops. It is based on distributed System Architecture. Its
OS is based on Linux Kernel.
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