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November 24, 2006

IBM Continues Domination of HPCC Competition at SC06

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For the second straight year, IBM has dominated the HPC Challenge (HPCC) competition. The DOE/NNSA/LLNL team, using IBM's Blue Gene/L system, once again swept all four Class 1 benchmark awards. The four Class 2 productivity awards were split between MIT, IBM, The MathWorks and the Russian People Friendship University.

Class 1

The Class 1 HPCC benchmarks -- HPL, RandomAccess, FFT and STREAM-system -- are focused on raw performance. The first place winner of each benchmark was awarded a $500 prize. The complete results of the Class 1 awards are as follows:

G-HPL           Achieved      System         Affiliation      Submitter
-------------   -----------   ------------   --------------   -------------
1st place       259 Tflop/s   IBM BG/L       DOE/NNSA/LLNL    Tom Spelce
1st runner up   67 Tflop/s    IBM BG/L       BM T.J. Watson   John Gunnels
2nd runner up   57 Tflop/s    IBM p5-575     LLNL             Charles Grassl
                                
G-RandomAccess  Achieved      System         Affiliation      Submitter
--------------  -----------   ------------   --------------   -------------
1st place       35 GUPS       IBM BG/L       DOE/NNSA/LLNL    Tom Spelce
1st runner up   17 GUPS       IBM BG/L       IBM T.J. Watson  John Gunnels
2nd runner up   10 GUPS       Cray XT3 Dual  ORNL             Jeff Larkin
                                
G-FFT           Achieved      System         Affiliation      Submitter
-------------   -----------   ------------   --------------   -------------
1st place       2311 Gflop/s  IBM BG/L       DOE/NNSA/LLNL    Tom Spelce
1st runner up   1122 Gflop/s  Cray XT3 Dual  ORNL             Jeff Larkin
2nd runner up   1118 Gflop/s  Cray XT3       SNL              Courtenay Vaughan
                                
EP-STREAM-      Achieved      System         Affiliation      Submitter
Triad (system)
-------------   -----------   ------------   --------------   -------------
1st place       160 TB/s      IBM BG/L       DOE/NNSA/LLNL    Tom Spelce
1st runner up   55 TB/s       IBM p5-575     LLNL             Charles Grassl
2nd runner up   43 TB/s       Cray XT3       SNL              Courtenay Vaughan

Class 2

The Class 2 awards focused on productivity (defined as 50/50 mixture of performance and elegance) and introduced subjectivity into the judging process but also to the submitters' criteria of what is appropriate for the contest. As a result, a wide range of solutions were submitted, spanning various programming languages (interpreted and compiled) and paradigms (with explicit and implicit parallelism).

The winner of the first three categories were each awarded a $500 prize. The complete results of the Class 2 awards are as follows:

1. Best overall productivity

Recipient: Bradley Kuszmaul; Affiliation: MIT CSAIL; Language: Cilk

2. Best productivity in performance

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