Posted by technology-blog on 18 Nov
Every 6 months or so, colleagues from Germany and America get together to run tests on who's got the faster supercomputer. Narrowly missing defeat IBM's "Roadrunner" tops the list coming in at 1.105 peteflops/s. At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory the number 2 spot (Cray XT5) was just shy, coming in at 1.059 peteflops/s.
"One petaflop/s represents one quadrillion floating point operations per second. "
Intel sustained a mark of 379 of the 500 supercomputers using their chips and AMD with a mere 60 of the supercomputers using theirs.
Third spot was taken by the SGI (Silicon Graphics) Altix used by NASA.
Read Comments (0)
Write Comment
