Japan's K computer surpassed China's Tianhe-1A and grabbed the first title, according to the latest top 500 supercomputer list released on June 20 by Top500.org.
Built by Fujitsu Co. and installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, "Computer K" has a capability of performing more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second.
Tianhe-1A in China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, with a performance at 2.6 quadrillion calculations each second ranks second this time. And a Cray supercomputer from the United States got the third place with the speed of 1.8 quadrillion calculations every second.
Among this time's top 500 supercomputers, China has 62 supercomputing systems, recording its best performance, and increases 21 supercomputers since last November.
Top 500 supercomputer list, released twice a year by Top500.org, is considered as the most powerful supercomputer rankings around the world.
Here are the top 500 supercomputers in June's list:
Rank |
Computer/ Vendor |
Site |
RMax |
Year |
Country |
1 |
K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect/ Fujitsu |
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) |
8162000 |
2011 |
Japan |
2 |
NUDT TH MPP, X5670 2.93Ghz 6C, NVIDIA GPU, FT-1000 8C/ NUDT |
National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin |
2566000 |
2010 |
China |
3 |
Cray XT5-HE Opteron 6-core 2.6 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
1759000 |
2009 |
United States |
4 |
Dawning TC3600 Blade, Intel X5650, NVidia Tesla C2050 GPU/ Dawning |
National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen (NSCS) |
1271000 |
2010 |
China |
5 |
HP ProLiant SL390s G7 Xeon 6C X5670, Nvidia GPU, Linux/Windows/ NEC/HP |
GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
1192000 |
2010 |
Japan |
6 |
Cray XE6 8-core 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL |
1110000 |
2011 |
United States |
7 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX/8400EX, Xeon HT QC 3.0/Xeon 5570/5670 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband/ SGI |
NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS |
1088000 |
2011 |
United States |
8 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC |
1054000 |
2010 |
United States |
9 |
Bull bullx super-node S6010/S6030/ Bull SA |
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) |
1050000 |
2010 |
France |
10 |
BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband/ IBM |
DOE/NNSA/LANL |
1042000 |
2009 |
United States |
11 |
Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee |
919100 |
2011 |
United States |
12 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) |
825500 |
2009 |
Germany |
13 |
T-Platforms T-Blade2/1.1, Xeon X5570/X5670 2.93 GHz, Nvidia 2070 GPU, Infiniband QDR/ T-Platforms |
Moscow State University - Research Computing Center |
674105 |
2011 |
Russia |
14 |
eServer Blue Gene Solution/ IBM |
DOE/NNSA/LLNL |
478200 |
2007 |
United States |
15 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory |
458611 |
2007 |
United States |
16 |
Sun Blade x6275, Xeon X55xx 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband/ Oracle |
Sandia National Laboratories / National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
433500 |
2010 |
United States |
17 |
SunBlade x6420, Opteron QC 2.3 Ghz, Infiniband/ Oracle |
Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas |
433200 |
2008 |
United States |
18 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
DOE/NNSA/LLNL |
415700 |
2009 |
United States |
19 |
Cray XE6 8-core 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Air Force Research Laboratory |
336300 |
2010 |
United States |
20 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Korea Meteorological Administration |
316400 |
2010 |
Korea, South |
21 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Korea Meteorological Administration |
316400 |
2010 |
Korea, South |
22 |
Supermicro Cluster, QC Opteron 2.1 GHz, ATI Radeon GPU, Infiniband/ Clustervision/Supermicro |
Universitaet Frankfurt |
299300 |
2011 |
Germany |
23 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.2 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Government |
295500 |
2010 |
United States |
24 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
University of Edinburgh |
279636 |
2011 |
United Kingdom |
25 |
Sun Constellation, NovaScale R422-E2, Intel Xeon X5570, 2.93 GHz, Sun M9/Mellanox QDR Infiniband/Partec Parastation/ Bull SA |
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) |
274800 |
2009 |
Germany |
26 |
Sun Blade x6048, X6275, IB QDR M9 switch, Sun HPC stack Linux edition/ Oracle |
KISTI Supercomputing Center |
274800 |
2009 |
Korea, South |
27 |
Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.3 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC |
266300 |
2008 |
United States |
28 |
Dell PowerEdge M610 Cluster, Xeon 5680 3.3Ghz, Infiniband QDR/ Dell |
Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas |
251800 |
2011 |
United States |
29 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL260c G6, X5675 3.06 GHz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Manufacturing Company |
243900 |
2011 |
France |
30 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon E5472 3.0/X5560 2.8 GHz/ SGI |
Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif - Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur (GENCI-CINES) |
237800 |
2010 |
France |
31 |
Cray XT6m 12-Core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology |
237200 |
2011 |
Sweden |
32 |
Bullx B500 Cluster, Xeon X56xx 3.06Ghz, QDR Infiniband/ Bull SA |
Universitaet Aachen/RWTH |
219838 |
2011 |
Germany |
33 |
Mole-8.5 Cluster Xeon L5520 2.26 Ghz, nVidia Tesla, Infiniband/ IPE, Nvidia, Tyan |
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
207300 |
2010 |
China |
34 |
Cray XT6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
INPE (National Institute for Space Research) |
205100 |
2010 |
Brazil |
35 |
Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
205000 |
2008 |
United States |
36 |
Cray XT3/XT4/ Cray Inc. |
Sandia National Laboratories |
204200 |
2009 |
United States |
37 |
Cray XT6-HE, Opteron 6100 12C 2.1GHz/ Cray Inc. |
NOAA/Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
194400 |
2010 |
United States |
38 |
BX900 Xeon X5570 2.93GHz , Infiniband QDR/ Fujitsu |
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) |
191400 |
2009 |
Japan |
39 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
190900 |
2009 |
Saudi Arabia |
40 |
Dawning 5000A, QC Opteron 1.9 Ghz, Infiniband, Windows HPC 2008/ Dawning |
Shanghai Supercomputer Center |
180600 |
2008 |
China |
41 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, L54xx 2.5 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Government |
179634 |
2009 |
France |
42 |
Acer AR585 F1 Cluster, Opteron 12C 2.2GHz, QDR infiniband/ Acer Group |
Taiwan National Center for High-performance Computing |
177100 |
2011 |
Taiwan |
43 |
iDataPlex, Xeon X56xx 6C 2.93 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
EDF R&D |
168800 |
2010 |
France |
44 |
Cray XT5 SixCore 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS) |
168700 |
2009 |
Switzerland |
45 |
iDataPlex, Xeon E55xx QC 2.53 GHz, GigE/ IBM |
SciNet/University of Toronto |
168600 |
2009 |
Canada |
46 |
Dell Xanadu 3 Cluster, Xeon X5660 2.8 Ghz, QLogic InfiniBand QDR/ Dell |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
166700 |
2010 |
United States |
47 |
Cray XT5 QC 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Government |
165600 |
2009 |
United States |
48 |
SGI Altix ICE 8400EX Xeon X5570 4-core 2.93 GHz, Infiniband/ SGI |
University of Tokyo/Institute for Solid State Physics |
161800 |
2010 |
Japan |
49 |
SGI Altix ICR 8200 Enh. LX, Xeon X5560 2.8Ghz/ SGI |
ERDC DSRC |
160200 |
2009 |
United States |
50 |
Power 775, Power7 3.836 GHz/ IBM |
IBM Poughkeepsie Benchmarking Center |
159600 |
2011 |
United States |
51 |
Cray XE6 8-core 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
ERDC DSRC |
153000 |
2010 |
United States |
52 |
PowerEdge C6100 Cluster, Xeon X5660 2.8 Ghz, Infiniband/ Dell |
University of Colorado |
152200 |
2010 |
United States |
53 |
iDataPlex DX360M3, Xeon 2.93, Infiniband/ IBM |
Vestas Wind Systems A/S |
151672 |
2011 |
Denmark |
54 |
iDataPlex DX360M3, Xeon 2.4, nVidia GPU, Infiniband/ IBM |
CINECA / SCS - SuperComputing Solution |
142700 |
2011 |
Italy |
55 |
iDataPlex DX360M3, Xeon 2.66, Infiniband/ IBM |
CLUMEQ - McGill University |
136300 |
2010 |
Canada |
56 |
Megware Saxonid 6100, Opteron 8C 2.2 GHz, Infiniband QDR/ Megware |
Vienna Scientific Cluster |
135600 |
2011 |
Austria |
57 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200, Xeon quad core 3.0 GHz/ SGI |
New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) |
133200 |
2007 |
United States |
58 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS |
132800 |
2008 |
India |
59 |
Appro XtremeServer 1143H, Opteron QC 2.2Ghz, Infiniband/ Appro Inernational |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
131600 |
2008 |
United States |
60 |
HP ProLiant SL390s G7 Xeon 6C X5650, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
eni |
131200 |
2011 |
Italy |
61 |
BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
DOE/NNSA/LANL |
126500 |
2009 |
United States |
62 |
Raytheon/Aspen Cluster, Xeon X5560/X5650 2.8/2.66 Ghz, QDR Infinband/ Raytheon/Aspen Systems |
NOAA/ESRL/GSD |
126500 |
2010 |
United States |
63 |
PowerEdge 1950/SunFire X2200/IBM dx340/dx360/HP SL160, Xeon/Opteron 2.3-2.67GHz, Myrinet 10G/ Dell/Sun/IBM |
University of Southern California |
126400 |
2011 |
United States |
64 |
Sun Blade x6048, Xeon X5570 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband QDR/ Oracle |
National Computational Infrastructure National Facility (NCI-NF) |
126400 |
2010 |
Australia |
65 |
Cray XE6 12-core 2.1 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
University of Chicago |
125800 |
2010 |
United States |
66 |
Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.3 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee |
125128 |
2008 |
United States |
67 |
Bullx B500 Cluster, Xeon X56xx 2.8Ghz, QDR Infiniband/ Bull SA |
Atomic Weapons Establishment |
124600 |
2010 |
United Kingdom |
68 |
SX-9/E/1280M160/ NEC |
Japan Agency for Marine -Earth Science and Technology |
122400 |
2009 |
Japan |
69 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
IDRIS |
119310 |
2008 |
France |
70 |
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
ECMWF |
115900 |
2008 |
United Kingdom |
71 |
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
ECMWF |
115900 |
2009 |
United Kingdom |
72 |
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
DKRZ - Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum |
115900 |
2008 |
Germany |
73 |
Fujitsu FX1, Quadcore SPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz, Infiniband DDR/ Fujitsu |
JAXA |
110600 |
2009 |
Japan |
74 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200 Enhanced LX, Xeon Nehalem quad core 2.8 GHz/ SGI |
US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) |
109300 |
2009 |
United States |
75 |
BULL Novascale R422-E2/ Bull SA |
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)/CCRT |
108500 |
2010 |
France |
76 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c/BL2x220, Xeon 54xx 3 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Joint Supercomputer Center |
107448 |
2009 |
Russia |
77 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC E5472 3.0 GHz/X5570 2.93 GHz/ SGI |
HLRN at Universitaet Hannover / RRZN |
107100 |
2009 |
Germany |
78 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC E5472 3.0 GHz/X5570 2.93 GHz/ SGI |
HLRN at ZIB/Konrad Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik |
107100 |
2009 |
Germany |
79 |
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon quad core 3.0 GHz/ SGI |
Total Exploration Production |
106100 |
2008 |
France |
80 |
Dell Xanadu 3 Cluster, Xeon X5660 2.8 Ghz, QLogic InfiniBand QDR/ Dell |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
105900 |
2010 |
United States |
81 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, L56xx 2.26 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Cyfronet |
104765 |
2011 |
Poland |
82 |
DeepComp 7000, HS21/x3950 Cluster, Xeon QC HT 3 GHz/2.93 GHz, Infiniband/ Lenovo |
Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Science |
102800 |
2008 |
China |
83 |
Appro Xtreme-X3 Server - Quad Opteron Quad Core 2.3 GHz, Infiniband/ Appro International |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
102200 |
2009 |
United States |
84 |
Hitachi opteron QC 2.3 GHz Myrinet 10G/ Hitachi |
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo |
101741 |
2009 |
Japan |
85 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, E54xx 3.0 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Kurchatov Institute Moscow |
101213 |
2010 |
Russia |
86 |
Appro GreenBlade Cluster Xeon X5660 2.8Ghz, nVIDIA M2050, Infiniband/ Appro International |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
100500 |
2010 |
United States |
87 |
SKIF Aurora Platform - Intel Xeon X5680, Infiniband QDR/ Self-made |
South Ural State University |
100400 |
2011 |
Russia |
88 |
Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband/ IBM |
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP |
98423 |
2009 |
Germany |
89 |
RIKEN Intergrated Cluster of Clusters, Xeon X5570 2.93GHz, Infiniband DDR/ Fujitsu |
Institute of Physical and Chemical Res. (RIKEN) |
97940 |
2009 |
Japan |
90 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, L56xx 2.26 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
Government |
97500 |
2011 |
Sweden |
91 |
Cluster Platform 4000 DL185G5, Opteron QC 2.2 GHz, Infiniband DDR/ Hewlett-Packard |
DOE/SC/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
97071 |
2008 |
United States |
92 |
Cray XT5 QC 2.4 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
Naval Oceanographic Office - NAVO DSRC |
96550 |
2011 |
United States |
93 |
Blue Gene/P Solution/ IBM |
EDF R&D |
95450 |
2008 |
France |
94 |
Cray XT4, 2.3 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
University of Edinburgh |
95080 |
2009 |
United Kingdom |
95 |
Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, E54xx 3.0 Ghz, Infiniband/ Hewlett-Packard |
IT Service Provider |
94737.1 |
2009 |
Germany |
96 |
PowerEdge 1950/SunFire X2200/iDataPlex/IBM dx340 Intel 53xx/54xx 2.33Ghz, Opteron 2.3 Ghz, E5410 2.33GHz Myrinet 10G/ Dell/Sun/IBM |
Clemson University |
92480 |
2011 |
United States |
97 |
Inspur TS10000 HPC Server, Xeon X56xx 2.93 Ghz, QDR Infiniband/ Inspur |
Tsinghua University |
92420 |
2011 |
China |
98 |
eServer Blue Gene Solution/ IBM |
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
91290 |
2005 |
United States |
99 |
Appro Xtreme-X3 Opteron 2.4GHz, Infiniband QDR/ Appro International |
Idaho National Laboratory |
91030 |
2011 |
United States |
100 |
Cray XE6 8-core 2.3 GHz/ Cray Inc. |
University of Alaska - Arctic Region Supercomputing Center |
88920 |
2010 |
United States |