Top 500
Another six months, another post about the Top 500 list. The current list was pretty exciting. While BlueGene remains the top computer, its speed was greatly increased from 280.6 GFLOPS to 478.2 GFLOPS. For the last two years there as been little increase in the speed of the top 10 computers, however, this update saw a bunch of new entrants, pushing the former 2nd place computer down to 7th. This six months saw total FLOPS of the top 500 increase by 41%, the best result in two years.
Other tidbits, BlueGene now does as many FLOPS as the entire top 500 list from June 2003. The current 500th computer does as many FLOPS as the entire top 500 list from June 1996. The current results do not change my estimate that the average top 10 computer will do 1 PentaFLOPS by June 2011.
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