Germany still Europe's main supercomputer countryHeidelberg 20 jun 2002 With 64 machines in the top500 and over 20 Tflop/s of installed Linpack performance, Germany is still the most important European supercomputer country. Despite the fact that the first position in Europe is now belonging to a supercomputer installed in France. Impressive as 20 Tflop/s sounds, it is much less than the performance of the Earth Simulator machine that holds the world's first position.
The UK is the second country in Europe with 37 installations at nearly 12 Tflop/s of installed performance. France has 23 machines at over 9 Tflop/s, almost halve of that performance is in the HP machine with nearly 4 Tlfop/s performance at CEA.
Italy is the only other Europan country with more than 10 installations (16). But the overall Italian performance is less than that of the CEA installation.
Since June 1999, Germany was having the fastest computer in Europe in its borders. Before that they could be found in the UK. Since this list, it is for the first time a machine in France is the fastest in europe.
Europe knows 4 'self-made' systems and one from a European company, Megware. This means that 1% of all top500 machines was produced in Europe. It has been worse in the past. (The TOP500 list maintainers count all the self-made machines as US systems, because the components come from over the Atlantic.)
The TOP10 of fastest supercomputers in Europe. One reason why most vendors like the TOP500, at least most of the time, is that they can nearly always find a category where they are on top. For Europe, in comparison with Japan and the USA, that is difficult. There is only one category where we beat them both. The centre with the most systems in the TOP500 is BMW in Munich. They have no less than eight. Second is Lawrence Livermore with seven and third Sprint with six.
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