Europe has no machine amongst the world TOP10 supercomputers

Heidelberg 21 jun 2001 Europe is no longer present in the TOP10 of the world's fastest supercomputers. This can be concluded from the 17th TOP500 list of fastest supercomputer sites, presented at the Heidelberg SC2001 supercomputer conference. The fastest machine in Europe is Hitachi SR8000-F1/112 at the Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Muenchen Germany. It has a performance of just over 1 Tflop/s, measured as Rmax. It is the only European Tflop/s system in the list. Number 2, Fujitsu VPP5000/100 at the ECMWF in Reading, UK, has a performance of 886 Gflop/s. These are also the only machines in the TOP25.

Overall, there are 160 TOP500 supercomputer class machines in Europe.

The European TOP 10 sub list looks like follows:

Euro Rank Rank World Manufacturer Computer Rmax Installation Site Country Year Area of Installation # Proc Rpeak Nmax N1/2

1 12 Hitachi SR8000-F1/112 1035 Leibniz Rechenzentrum Muenchen Germany 2000 Academic 112 1344 120000 15160

2 16 Fujitsu VPP5000/100 886 ECMWF Reading UK 2000 Research Weather 100 960 195600 18000

3 28 Cray Inc. T3E1200 671 CSAR at the University of Manchester Manchester UK 2000 Academic 812 974.4 . .

4 29 Cray Inc. T3E1200 671 Deutscher Wetterdienst Offenbach Germany 1999 Research Weather 812 974.4 . .

5 35 Cray Inc. T3E900 552 United Kingdom Meteorological Office Bracknell UK 1997 Research Weather 876 788.4 . .

6 40 Cray Inc. T3E1200 526 United Kingdom Meteorological Office Bracknell UK 1999 Research Weather 636 763.2 . .

7 45 IBM SP Power3 375 MHz 494 Centre Informatique National (CINES) Montpellier France 2001 Academic 472 708 . .

8 52 Cray Inc. T3E1200 447 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) Juelich Germany 1999 Research 540 648 181440 17280

9 57 Sun HPC 4500 400 MHz Cluster 420.44 Defense Stockholm Sweden 1999 Classified 896 716.8 144000 43200

10 63 SGI ORIGIN 3000 500 MHz 405.6 SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum) Amsterdam Netherlands 2000 Academic 512 512 230000 .

Leading supercomputer country in Europe is Germany with 64 machines. UK (31) and France (20) follow. From the big industrial countries, Italy is clearly lagging behind with only 12 machines. Measured in Kflop/s per inhabitant, Luxembourg is leading with 509 Kflop/s per inhabitant.

Of course, this is because of the small number of inhabitants, that mixes up the statistics. From the bigger countries, Germany is leading: 117 Kflop/s per inhabitant, and agina, Italy is not doing so well with 22 Kflop/s per inhabitant.

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