Call for Participation in November 2000 version of TOP500 listMannheim 15 September 2000 To provide a basis for statistics on high-performance computers, Hans W. Meuer, Erich Strohmaier and Jack J. Dongarra, have put together the TOP500 Supercomputer List. The list is a collection of the sites that, according to stipulated criteria, have the 500 most powerful computer systems installed. The next release of the TOP500 Supercomputer List will be presented at the SC2000, November 4-10 in Dallas, TX. The deadline for submitting entries is October 6, 2000.
All system reported have to be installed by October 30, 2000.
The List's maintainers are interested in new entries as well as entries
that are no longer valid. Following is a transcript of the guidelines for
submission of entries. To provide a better basis for statistics on high-performance computers, we
list twice a year the sites that have the 500 most powerful computer systems
installed. The best Linpack benchmark performance achieved is used as a
performance measure in ranking the computers.
Companies or individuals may submit entries for inclusion to us.
Submissions should contain the following information:
Manufacturer: Manufacturer or vendor Performance numbers for the Linpack benchmark are collected and updated by
Jack Dongarra (dongarra@cs.utk.edu). Please report any Linpack performance
numbers directly to him. In an attempt to obtain uniformity across all computers in performance
reporting, the algorithm used in solving the system of equations in the
benchmark procedure must confirm to the standard operation count for LU
factorization with partial pivoting. In particular, the operation count for
the algorithm must be 2/3 n^3 + O(n^2) floating point operations. This
excludes the use of a fast matrix multiply algorithm like "Strassian's
Method". This is done to provide a comparable set of performance numbers
across all computers. In addition to cross checking different sources of information, we select
randomly a statistical representative sample of the first 500 systems of our
database. For these systems we ask the supplier of the information to
establish direct contact between the installation site and us to verify the
given information. This gives us basic information about the quality of the
list in total. As the TOP500 should provide a basis for statistics on the market of
high-performance computers, we limit the number of systems installed at
vendor sites. This is done for each vendor separately by limiting the
accumulated performance of systems at vendor sites to a maximum of 5 percent
of the total accumulated installed performance of this vendor. Rounding is
done in favor of the vendor in question. The TOP500 List keepers can be reached by sending mail to info@top500.org The current list of the TOP500, as well as the former lists, is
available at the following Web sites:
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