The Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the RAS Joint Supercomputer Center – the creators of Supercomputers.ru web portal - have announced the publication of the 10th edition of the CIS Top 50 most powerful computers rating. For the first time ever the average peak performance of the systems represented in the rating has exceeded 10 TFlop/s.
The 10th anniversary edition of the Top 50 rating was officially announced on the 31st of March at the International Science Conference 'Parallel Computer Technologies’ in Nizhni Novgorod organized with the assistance of the Russian Fundamental Research Foundation. The recent edition of the rating is available at Supercomputers.ru.
The 10th edition of the rating has demonstrated further performance growth of the supercomputer systems in the CIS. Since the latest publication the total peak performance of such systems has grown by 14.95% and reached 510 TFlop/s (trillions floating-point operations per second). The total performance tested by Linpack has also grown by 15.33% and reached 382.6 TFlop/s within half-year. Thus, the average peak performance has for the first time exceeded 10 TFlop/s and amounts to 7.65 TFlop/s as tested by Linpack.
It should be noted that this year’s total performance growth is one of the lowest throughout history of the Top 50 rating. However, this rate showed its lowest value in the 5th edition, when the peak performance growth amounted to 2.2%. But on the average, performance was growing by 30-80% a year, and in the 8th edition a record performance growth of over 200% was achieved.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
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