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The TOP500 list aims to rank the 500 highest performing supercomputers in the world, but the list has shifted away from focusing only on HPC systems to also represent systems used for other purposes.
With the June 2024 rankings, there were 49 new machines on the Top500 list, and of the 1,226.7 petaflops of aggregate peak performance at 64-bit floating point precision across these new machines, ...
Like Hollywood’s Academy Awards, the Top500 list of supercomputers is dutifully watched by high-performance computing (HPC) participants and observers, even as they vocally doubt its fidelity to ...
No. 3, Eagle, installed in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, is the highest TOP500 rank a cloud system has ever achieved. In fact, it was two years ago that an Azure system, Voyager-EUS2, was the first cloud ...
It’s June, which means it’s time for the spring release of the Top500 list of supercomputers in the world… that we know of. It has long been suspected that there are other supercomputers out ...
JUPITER became the world’s fourth fastest supercomputer when it debuted last month. Though housed in Germany at the Jülich ...
The Top500 project's 65th list of performance results reveals U.S. leadership in supercomputing. The AMD-based El Capitan, Frontier, and Intel-powered Aurora take the top three spots. AI-focused ...
Number of AMD-based supercomputers on the latest Top500 list grows 39% year-over-year to 140; AMD now powers 8 of the 10 most energy efficient supercomputers in the worldSANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov ...
This edition of the TOP500 also highlights a few trends. For instance, based on this top 10 list, Intel, AMD, and IBM processors seem to be the preferred choice for HPC systems.
The latest edition of the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers has been revealed, with Frontier holding onto its top spot for another six months. For the time being, Frontier is also the ...
According to Top500, North America is home to the most machines on the list, claiming 171 out of 500. Meanwhile, Europe has now overtaken Asia for second place, housing 160 systems compared to Asia’s ...