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The Green500 Top 10
November 2012
#1 Beacon-National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee
#2 SANAM-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
#3 Titan-DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
#4 Todi-Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS)
#5 JUQUEEN-Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
#6 BGQdev-Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Consortium/University of Toronto
#7 rzuseq-DOE/NNSA/LLNL
#8 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
#9 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
#10 CADMOS BG/Q-Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
#2 SANAM-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
#3 Titan-DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
#4 Todi-Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS)
#5 JUQUEEN-Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
#6 BGQdev-Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Consortium/University of Toronto
#7 rzuseq-DOE/NNSA/LLNL
#8 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
#9 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
#10 CADMOS BG/Q-Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
The Green500 List
The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. For decades, the notion of "performance" has been synonymous with "speed" (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). This particular focus has led to the emergence of supercomputers that consume egregious amounts of electrical power and produce so much heat that extravagant cooling facilities must be constructed to ensure proper operation. In addition, the emphasis on speed as the ultimate metric has caused other metrics such as reliability, availability, and usability to be largely ignored. As a result, there has been an extraordinary increase in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a supercomputer.
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