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Russian Researchers Release Top 50 Supercomputer List
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MOSCOW, March 27 -- The Research Computing Centre of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Joint Supercomputer Centre of the Russian academy of science announce the release of the 8th edition of the Top 50 list of the most powerful computers in Russia and CIS (former Soviet Union countries). The new list can be found at http://www.supercomputers.ru/?page=rating.
The 8th edition of the list shows a skyrocketing increase of performance of the most powerful computers in Russia and CIS. Total Linpack performance has increased from 61.6 TFlops to 197.3 TFlops (by 220.3 percent) within half a year -- an unparalleled increase for the entire life of the list. New systems, including those upgraded over the last half a year, comprise 56 percent of the list (28 out of 50 installations).
The most significant changes as compared to the previous edition affected the top section of the list. The top five of the most powerful supercomputers in CIS are all completely new. As a result, total Linpack performance of Top5 has increased from 31.2 TFlops up to 117.1 TFlops (by 275.4 percent).
The top position of the list is occupied by the SKIF MSU supercomputer delivered by T-Platforms for the Lomonosov Moscow State University within the frames of the SKIF-GRID supercomputer program of Russia & Belarus. The Linpack performance of this computer deployed in the MSU Research Computing Centre is 47.14 TFlops (78.5 percent of peak performance).
The second position of the new list edition is taken by the MBC-100K supercomputer delivered by HP with Linpack performance of 33.9 TFlops. The 3rd and 5th positions are occupied by two IBM systems deployed in the Ufa State Aviation Technical University and the Siberian Federal University with Linpack performance of 14.6 TFlops and 9.3 TFlops respectively. The 4th position goes to SKIF Ural supercomputer by T-Platforms deployed in the South-Ural State University with Linpack performance of 12.2 TFlops.
The 6th position of the list is taken by the leader of two previous editions of Top50 -- the T-Platforms SKIF Cyberia supercomputer for Tomsk State University with Linpack performance of 9 TFlops. Only two systems from the previous edition remained in the top ten -- it is the most significant change during the whole history of the Top50 list.
The number of computers with real performance over 1 TFlops in CIS has actually doubled from 13 to 25, and the entry level to top ten moved from 1.3 TFlops to 5.2 TFlops (by 300 percent). The entry level to the entire Top50 is now 432 GFlops on the Lipack benchmark as compared to 253.6 GFlops half a year ago.
The number of systems in the academic segment increased from 38 percent to 58 percent, while the share of HPC systems used for applied research stayed on the same level of 28 percent as compared to the previous edition. At the same time, the share of powerful computers in the industrial and financial segments decreased from 16 percent to 10 percent and from 18 percent to 4 percent respectively.
Most of Top50 computers are based on Intel processors (38 systems as compared to 31 half a year ago). The list also includes six AMD processor-based systems (nine in the previous edition), five IBM processor-based systems (unchanged from the previous edition) and one HP processor-based system (five in September). The number of computers based on Gigabit Ethernet interconnect significantly decreased -- from 20 to nine during six months. High-speed communication technologies are used more widely: InfiniBand (up from 20 to 31 systems) and Myrinet (up from six to eight systems). SCI and HyperPlex communication technologies are each used in one system.
T-Platforms improves its leading positions among Top50 system vendors with an increase of its share from 30 percent to 46 percent (including SKIF supercomputers developed and delivered by the company). The share of systems sold by Hewlett-Packard and IBM slightly decreased from 26 percent to 20 percent and from 22 percent to 14 percent respectively.
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