Some Observations on Supercomputer 500 List

The latest version was published on 28 May 2010, the previous one was in Nov 2009. It is interesting to notice some changes in just this last six months.

1. The least powerful system had a performance of 20 teraflops/s. You need 24.7 TF/s to just get into the list.
2. The list was full of machines built from quad core processors.Some 425 of the 500 systems had these silicon wonders inside them. Six or more core processors were on 25 of the systems only.
3. Intel dominated with 402 systems using them, AMD Opteron at second spot was used in 47 systems and IBM Power chips were in 42 systems only.
4. IBM and HP are the top vendors in the supercomputer league.

Read up the complete report here.