Germany and UK dominate European TOP10 machines

Orlando, 11 November 98 According to the new TOP500 list, the T3E900 with 876 processors at UK Meteorological Office is still the largest installation in Europe and on rank5 world wide. The second machine in Europe is the T3E1200 with 612 processors in Manchester, the new UK scientific supercomputer. The German sites Deutscher Wetterdienst, Max Planck, HWW Stuttgart and FZJ Juelich follow before the next UK machine: EPCC in Edinburgh. These are all SGI T3E computers. On place 8 is the first non-SGI machine in Europe's TOP10: the VPP700 at ECMWF. A second T3E in Juelich is in on place nine. CEA in France on position 10 closes the TOP10.

In the new November 1998 release of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerfll supercomputers, the ASCI red machineis still on the top position. ASCI Blu Pacific from IBM is a runner up: two parts of the machinecan be found on place 6 and 7: when they are put together and run the benchmark on the full machine, they will likely top ASCI Red. But there are more powerful machines installed recently that will try to get to the first place in June next year.
TOP10 machines in Europe

Europe World Manuf. Computer Rmax Institute Country YEAR Type Procs
1 5 SGI T3E900 552920 United Kingdom Meteorological Office UK 1997 Research 876

2 8 SGI T3E1200 509900 UK Centre for Science UK 1998 Academic 612

3 13 SGI T3E1200 401200 Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany 1998 Research 484

4 15 SGI T3E 355100 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP Germany 1997 Research 812

5 16 SGI T3E900 341300 HWW/Universitaet Stuttgart Germany 1996 Industry 540

6 20 SGI T3E 234900 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) Germany 1996 Research 540

7 27 SGI T3E900 218900 University of Edinburgh UK 1997 Academic 348

8 28 Fujitsu VPP700/116 213000 ECMWF UK 1997 Research 116

9 31 SGI T3E900 169070 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) Germany 1997 Research 268

10 33 SGI T3E750 157500 Commissariat a lEnergie Atomique (CEA) France 1997 Research 300

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