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TOP500 Slides from SC12 are now available

Nov. 14, 2012, 1:18 p.m.

The slides from the TOP500 BoF Session at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah are now available. Special for this year was the presentation by Horst Simon of all systems that made it to the top of the list in the last 20 years and a special presentation by Hans Meuer about sites entering the list for the first time. The TOP500 BoF session was held on November 13, 2012.

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Oak Ridge Claims No. 1 Position on Latest TOP500 List with Titan

Nov. 12, 2012, 8:32 a.m.

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Advanced reports that Oak Ridge National Laboratory was fielding the world’s fastest supercomputer were proven correct when the 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers was released today (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. Titan has 560,640 processors, including 261,632 NVIDIA K20x accelerator cores.

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TOP500 List to Mark 20th Anniversary at SC12 in Salt Lake City

Nov. 11, 2012, 12:34 a.m.

Do you remember the machine that took the first No. 1 position when the list debuted way back in 1993? Or how many consecutive lists were topped by the Earth Simulator? And when did Roadrunner make it into first place?

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TOP10 November 2012

1 Titan - Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
2 Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom
3 K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
4 Mira - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
5 JUQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
6 SuperMUC - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz, Infiniband FDR
7 Stampede - PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi
8 Tianhe-1A - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93 GHz, NVIDIA 2050
9 Fermi - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
10 DARPA Trial Subset - Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom Interconnect

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