The world's top 10 fastest supercomputers are Tianhe-1A, Jaguar, Nebulae, TSUBAME 2.0, Hopper, Tera 100, Roadrunner, Kraken, JUGENE and Cielo.
The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer, designed by the National University of Defense Technology in China was the result of two years of work by 200 scientists, is housed at National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin and is already fully operational. Made at a cost of over $88 million, it has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, or quatrillion calculations per second. Ordinarily the computer runs at 563.1 teraflops, or trillion calculations per second.
ReutersName: JaguarDate of Creation: 2005Location: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States.Speed: 1.75 petaflops per second (Rmax)Jaguar is America’s top and world’s second fastest supercomputer. It was built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Jaguar system has been through a series of upgrades since installation as a 25-teraflop Cray XT3 in 2005. Jaguar upgrade to 263-teraflop Cray XT4 by early 2008 and expanded with the addition of a 1.4-petaflop Cray XT5 by 2008 end. By 2009, the resulting system had over 200,000 processing cores connected internally with Cray's Seastar2+ network.
Nccs.govName: NebulaeDate of Creation: 2009Location: National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (NSCS), People's Republic of China.Speed: 1.27 petaflops per second (Rmax)The Nebulae is China’s second and world’s third fastest super computer. Built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processors and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, it has a peak performance of 1.271 petaflops using the LINPACK benchmark suite.
ReutersName: TSUBAME 2.0Date of Creation: 2010Location: GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.Speed: 1.2 petaflops per second (Rmax)TSUBAME 2.0 is Japan’s top and world’s fourth fastest super computer. The computer can calculate 2,400 trillion times per second, or 12 times faster than a supercomputer at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
GoogleName: HopperDate of Creation: 2010Location: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, United States.Speed: 1.054 petaflops per second (Rmax)Hopper is the world’s fifth fastest super computer and was named after Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in software and programming languages.
nersc.govName: Tera 100Date of Creation: 2010Location: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France.Speed: 1.05 petaflops per second (Rmax)Tera 100 is the world’s sixth fastest super computer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique. It is able to sustain around 1 petaflops maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaflops. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000 Intel Xeon 7500 processor cores, 300 TB of memory.
GoogleName: RoadrunnerDate of Creation: 2009Location: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States.Speed: 1.04petaflops per second (Rmax)Roadrunner is the world’s seventh fastest super computer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. It is a one-of-a-kind supercomputer, built from off the shelf parts, with many novel design features. It is also the fourth-most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world on the Supermicro Green500 list, with an operational rate of 444.94 megaflops per watt of power used.
WikipediaName: KrakenDate of Creation: 2009Location: National Institute for Computational Sciences, United States.Speed: 1.028 petaflops per second (Rpeak)Kraken is the world’s eighth fastest supercomputer located at National Institute for Computational Sciences. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University of Tennessee. Kraken is a petascale computing environment fully integrated with the TeraGrid with access to the 1.03-petaflop Cray XT5 system containing 16,512 compute sockets and more than 129 terabytes of memory.
WikipediaName: JUGENEDate of Creation: 2009Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.Speed: 1.002 petaflops per second (Rpeak)JUGENE is the world’s ninth fastest supercomputer built by IBM for Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. It is based on the Blue Gene/P and is the successor to the JUBL based on an earlier design. It was the second fastest computer in the world when it was built.
GoogleName: CieloDate of Creation: 2010Location: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States.Speed: 1.028 petaflops per second (Rpeak)Cielo is the world’s tenth fastest supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA.
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