2. BoF Session at SC12 in Salt Lake City
Tuesday, Nov 13, 5:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Welcome & Intro 5:30 pm - 5:35 pm
Hans Meuer
Awarding of the #1, #2 Systems in the World,
the #1 System in Asia and the #1 System in Europe 5:35 pm - 5:55 pm
The Authors of the TOP500
Highlights of the 40th List 5:55 pm - 6:10 pm
Erich Strohmaier
#1 Systems in all 40 Lists & TOP500 History Booth 6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Horst Simon
Sites making the List the First Time 6:25 pm - 6:35 pm
Hans Meuer
Critical Issues at Exascale
for Algorithm and Software Design 6:35 pm - 6:50 pm
Jack Dongarra
Q&A 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
The Authors of the TOP500
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3. #1 System in the World
The TOP500 authors proudly announce…
Meuer Strohmaier Dongarra Simon
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4. #1 System in the World
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5. #1 System in the World
Dr. Jeff Nichols
Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences,
ORNL
Peter Ungaro
President & CEO, Cray
Jen - Hsun Huang
Co-Founder, President & CEO, Nvidia
Congratulations!
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6. #2 System in the World
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7. #2 System in the World
Kim Cupps
High Performance Computing Division Leader
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Brian Connors
Vice President & HPC Business Line Executive
IBM Systems and Technology Group, USA
Congratulations!
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8. #1 System in the World
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9. #1 System in Asia
Dr. Mitsuo Yokokawa
Director of the Operations and Computer Technologies Division, RIKEN
Advanced Institute for Computational Science
Naoki Shinjo
Senior Vice President, Next Generation Technical Computing Unit,
Fujitsu
Congratulations!
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10. #1 System in Europe
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11. #1 System in Europe
Dr. Norbert Attig
Deputy Director, Supercomputing Centre, FZ Jülich
Andreas Pflieger
Senior Manager Industry Sales, Higher Education & Research,
IBM Germany
Congratulations!
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12. Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers in the List 11/2012 : 30
No Rank Site Vendor / Country System
National Computational Infrastructure,
1 24 Fujitsu / Australia Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX250 S1, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Australian National University
2 53 DOE/National Energy Technology Laboratory SGI / USA HPCEE - SGI Rackable C2112-4RP3, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband QDR
Army Research Laboratory DoD
3 60 Supercomputing Resource Center (ARL IBM / USA Pershing - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
DSRC)
Army Research Laboratory DoD
79 Supercomputing Resource Center (ARL IBM / USA Hercules - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
DSRC)
Southern Ontario Smart Computing
4 66 Innovation Consortium/University of IBM / Canada BGQ - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
Toronto
Southern Ontario Smart Computing
403 Innovation Consortium/University of IBM / Canada BGQdev - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
Toronto
5 67 Wright-Patterson AFB SGI / USA SGI Altix X, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
6 70 IBM / USA Haise - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
71 IBM / USA Kilrain - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
471 IBM / USA Cernan - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
… … … …
22 251 IT Services Provider 5 HP /USA Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband QDR
23 272 Service Provider IBM / USA xSeries x3550M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
24 273 ERDC ORC Cray Inc. / USA Copper - Cray XE6m-200, Opteron 6276 16C 2.300GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect
25 279 Electrionic Industry HP /USA Cluster Platform 4000 BL685c, Opteron 6140 8C 2.600GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
26 306 Electrionic Industry HP /USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2660 8C 2.200GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
27 341 SGI SGI / USA SGI Altix X, Xeon E5-2690 8C 2.900GHz, Infiniband FDR
28 342 Financial Securities IBM / USA iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, 10G Ethernet
29 358 IT Services Provider 6 HP /USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
30 379 Software Company HP / Taiwan Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2667 6C 2.900GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
Share of Countries USA: 21 / Sweden: 2 / Others: 7
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13. Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers in the List 06/2012 : 25
No Rank Site Vendor / Country System
1 23 IBM Development Engineering IBM / USA DARPA Trial Subset - Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom
2 30 IDRIS/GENCI IBM / France BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
3 31 Victorian Life Sciences Computation
Initiative IBM / Australia Avoca - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
4 58 CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and
Computer Simulation HP / India Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Infiniband FDR
5 80 Tianhe-1A Guangzhou Solution - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X56xx (Westmere-EP) 2.93
Super Computer Center in Guangzhou NUDT / China GHz, Proprietary
6 86 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space SAGA - Z24XX/SL390s Cluster, Xeon E5530/E5645 6C 2.40GHz, Infiniband QDR,
Research Organisation HP/WIPRO / India NVIDIA 2090/2070
7 106 Research Institute for Information
Technology, Kyushu University Fujitsu / Japan PRIMEHPC FX10, SPARC64 IXfx 16C 1.848GHz, Tofu interconnect
8 118 VSC / Flemish Supercomputer Center HP / Belgium Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Infiniband FDR
9 127 Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8, Xeon E5-2660 8C 2.200GHz, Infiniband FDR, NVIDIA
Research Center HP / China 2090
357 Research Center HP / China HP DL160 Cluster G6, Xeon X5650 6C 2.660GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
10 134 Durham University IBM / UK iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
11 155 Government HP / UK Cluster Platform 3000 BL280c G6, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
12 159 Science and Technology Facilities Council - HP / UK EMERALD - Cluster Platform SL390s G7, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Infiniband QDR,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory NVIDIA 2090
13 161 E-Security - Selex Elsag Eurotech / Italy Aurora - Eurotech Aurora, Xeon X5690 6C 3.470GHz, Infiniband QDR, NVIDIA 2090
14 250 Logistic Services HP / USA Cluster Platform 4000 BL685c G7, Opteron 6276 16C 2.30GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
15 270 Numazu Complex, Fujitsu Limited Fujitsu / Japan PRIMEHPC FX10, SPARC64 IXfx 16C 1.848GHz, Tofu interconnect
16 286 Government HP / Canada Cluster Platform 4000 BL465c, Opteron 6134 8C 2.30GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
17 291 Leeds N8 SGI / UK N8 - Raackable Cluster, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband QD
18 310 Electronics IBM / China xSeries x3650M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
311 Electronics IBM / China xSeries x3650M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
19 335 Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) IBM / Slovak Republic Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom
20 383 Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, NVIDIA
Telecommunication Company HP / China 2090
21 397 New York University at Abu Dhabi HP / United Arab Emirates BuTinah - Cluster Platform SL390/BL2x220, Xeon X5675 6C 3.06GHz, Infiniband QDR
22 417 Government HP / Singapore Cluster Platform SL390s G7, Xeon X5690 6C 3.47GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, NVIDIA 2090
23 446 Media Company HP / USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c G7, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
24 460 Internet Service IBM / China xSeries x3650 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
25 477 Automotive Company IBM / USA iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Share of Countries China: 6 / USA: 4 / UK: 3 / Japan: 2 / Others: 10
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14. TOP500 First Time Sites – Survey
39. TOP500 List /June 2012
25 Newcomer Sites (3) What kind of information do you seek
35% returned answers concerning the TOP500 project? (answers summarized)
Architecture, system size & performance of
TOP500 systems
Details of certain systems (CPU cores, power
(1) Do you assign consumption etc.)
Overall trends in top HPC systems
a value to your
Source of data for making predictions on future
TOP500 listings? evolution
Information about other academic institutions,
vendors and trends
(2) How often do
(4) Do you find
you visit the
sufficient infor-
TOP500 website at
mation on the
www.top500.org?
TOP500 website?
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15. Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Sites) from 06/1993 to 11/2012
500
450
400
350 355
300
250
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150
100
50 30
0 42
1995
1997
1993
1994
1996
1998
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16. Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Systems) from 06/1993 to 11/2012
500
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
43
50
0 56
1995
1997
1993
1994
1996
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2005
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17. Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Systems) versus Exchange Rate
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
164
100
84 43
50
56
0
1995
1997
1993
1994
1996
1998
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2000
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