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Top 500 list – November 2013

Posted on 19 November 2013 by hpc2go

World’s No. 1 supercomputer is still Tianhe-2, developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National … Continue reading →

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Million-core simulation

Posted on 29 January 2013 by hpc2go

Researchers at the Center for Turbulence Research set a new record in supercomputing, harnessing a million computing cores to model supersonic jet noise. Work was performed on the newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, number … Continue reading →

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Top 500 list – November 2012

Posted on 13 November 2012 by hpc2go

The 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers was released yesterday (Nov. 12, 2012). Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge, achieved 17.59 Petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. … Continue reading →

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