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February 24, 2009

Fastest 500 Supercomputers in Asia Site Opens

Feb. 24 -- Since 1993, www.TOP500.org has taken the initiative to assemble and maintain the list of the 500 most powerful computer systems twice a year around the world. With time, however, this list has come to be overwhelmingly populated by machines built by a few countries. While this is an accurate overall reflection of the state of supercomputing in the world, it makes more difficult an understanding of the relative computing capability within Asia and the Middle East.

To provide this new statistical foundation, targeting Asia and the Middle East, we have decided to assemble and maintain a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems in this region. Similar to the TOP500 list, our list is being compiled twice a year during GITEX exhibition in Riyadh and Dubai, with the help of high-performance computer experts, computational scientists, manufacturers, and the Internet community in general. We have also used parts of statistical lists published by others, such as the global TOP500 list.

With the advancement of high-performance computers and large computing machines, manufacturers, users, and potential users wish to know not only the number of systems installed, but also the location of the various supercomputers within the high-performance computing community, and the applications for which a computer system is being used. Such statistics can facilitate the establishment of collaborations, the exchange of data and software, and provide a better understanding of the high-performance computing technology in the region.

In the upcoming list, which is called the TOP500 Asia, supercomputers will be ranked by their performance using the LINPACK Benchmark, which is the de facto standard tool to measure the supercomputer's computational power in the high performance computing industry. The list maintainers intend to continue to update this list half-yearly and, in this way, to keep track of the evolution of computers in the Asian continent.

For more information, visit http://www.top500asia.org/.

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Source: www.top500asia.org

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