What Happened to the Top 500?

Top 500 The last six months have been slow for this blog as well as the Top 500 supercomputers. There was only one new computer added to the top 10. The total FLOPS calculated by all 500 supercomputers increased by 12%, the lowest since the list started. Given that the last list showed a growing divide between the top of the list and the bottom of the list, the fact that there was so little movement at the top of the list gave an opportunity for convergence. However, despite 137 new supercomputers, the 500th supercomputer can still only calculate at 0.35% the speed of Tianhe-2, a meager increase.