TOP500

IBM continues TOP500 lead

According to the June 2010 TOP500 (link resides outside of ibm.com) List of Supercomputers, IBM continues to lead the list for the twenty-second consecutive time with the most installed aggregate performance. IBM has regained the lead with the most entries on the list with 196. IBM also leads the Top 10 for the twelfth consecutive time with a total of four of the systems including, the #3 system, the first system to sustain a petaflop of performance, which IBM built for the "Roadrunner" project at the Los Alamos National Lab. Other systems in Top 10 were the #5 IBM Blue Gene/P system at Forschungszentrum Juelich, with over 825 teraflops which is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe. The IBM Blue Gene/L at the US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Lab, long time previous leader, is now the #8 system, and the #9 IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Lab.

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Results

IBM offers:

• Unmatched expertise to help you solve your toughest problems due to our technology leadership in clustering, chip technology, Linux and support for a broad range of applications for your solution area
• Improved flexibility provides you a full-scope infrastructure worldwide based on our vast portfolio spanning the widest range of platforms, architectures and operating systems
• Faster implementations by applying our in-depth vertical expertise and broad range of deployment experience
• Results that speak for themselves:
  • IBM is supercomputing leader as provider of 27 of the world's 100 most powerful supercomputers according to the most recent TOP500 Supercomputing Sites (link resides outside of ibm.com) ranking
  • Awarded more patents than any other company for each of the last 17 years with 4,914 patents in 2009 alone
  • First to break the petaflop performance barrier
  • Leading energy-efficiency with 17 of 20 highest megaflops per watt systems

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Extreme Computational Power

Power that enables trillions of calculations to occur within a second, and achieves the performance and productivity needed to run increasingly complex scientific and commercial applications. All of IBM Deep Computing solutions leverage IBM's long-standing leadership in supercomputing.

A Proven Leader

The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems, based on Linpack (link resides outside of ibm.com) performance, is assembled and released. The most recent list (June 2010) demonstrates IBM's leadership.

• Leads installed aggregate throughput for the 22st time in row with over 10,842 out of 32,434 Teraflops (33.4%)!
• Most systems in TOP10 by any single vendor (4)!
• Most systems in TOP100 systems with 27 (27%)!
• 17 of 20 most power efficient systems and 65 out of 100 most power efficient.

Source: www.top500.org (link resides outside of ibm.com)

The TOP500 list is the semiannual independent ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world based on Linpack HPL performance.

The IBM TOP 10 Club: IBM top 10 Systems on June 2010 TOP500 list
The following list represents only the ten largest of the 196 IBM systems on the list. The complete list can be viewed at www.top500.org (link resides outside of ibm.com)

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