Worlds 10 Fastest Computers

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China has once again captured the position of having world’s fastest computer.For the fourth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system China’s Tianhe-2 is on to, performing at 33.86 petaflop.The Tianhe-2  is at China’s National University of Defense Technology. It cost approximately $390 million to build and is comprised of thousands of Intel Intel Xeon E5-2692v2 12C 2.2GHz processors. It runs a version of Linux that was developed by the NUDT.

Top 10 fastest computer 2014

 

RANK SITE SYSTEM CORES RMAX (TFLOP/S) RPEAK (TFLOP/S) POWER (KW)
1 National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou
China
Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) – TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C 2.200GHz, TH Express-2, Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P
NUDT
3,120,000 33,862.7 54,902.4 17,808
2 DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States
Titan – Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
Cray Inc.
560,640 17,590.0 27,112.5 8,209
3 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
Sequoia – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom
IBM
1,572,864 17,173.2 20,132.7 7,890
4 RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
Japan
K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
Fujitsu
705,024 10,510.0 11,280.4 12,660
5 DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory
United States
Mira – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
IBM
786,432 8,586.6 10,066.3 3,945
6 Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)
Switzerland
Piz Daint – Cray XC30, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA K20x
Cray Inc.
115,984 6,271.0 7,788.9 2,325
7 Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas
United States
Stampede – PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi SE10P
Dell
462,462 5,168.1 8,520.1 4,510
8 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
Germany
JUQUEEN – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
IBM
458,752 5,008.9 5,872.0 2,301
9 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States
Vulcan – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
IBM
393,216 4,293.3 5,033.2 1,972
10 Government
United States
Cray CS-Storm, Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 10C 2.2GHz, Infiniband FDR, Nvidia K40
Cray Inc.
72,800 3,577.0 6,131.8 1,499

 

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