Top 500
After one stellar year for the top 500 supercomputers, this past update has shown a bit of a slow down. This is was not totally unexpected as there weren't many major new computers added in the past six months. It seems that whenever there's a new top computer, there's a sudden influx in the total FLOPS all 500 computers produce, but then it stagnates for a bit. Not that this past 6 months was terribly stagnant. The overall FLOPS produced by all 500 computers increased by 33%, just under the average of 37%.
The question now is when will the next big update come. There seems to be a new top computer every 1 to 2 years, however that time seems to increasing. BlueGene managed to hold the top spot for 3 years by continuously updating. However, during that whole time, there weren't any close competitors. The current second place computer is only slightly slower than the current top computer, Roadrunner, so it might not hold the top spot for long.
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