Number of Tflop/s systems in Europe tripled in six months

Mannheim, Knoxville, Berkely 15 November 2002 The new November 2002 TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers released shows that there are now 176 TOP500 class supercomputers in Europe, compared to 171 six months ago. The HP/Compaq Alpha server at CEA in France is still the fastest machine in Europe, and now on position 7 world-wide. There are 12 systems in Europe with a computing power of over 1 Tflop/s. Six months ago, there were only 4.

The Europeam TOP10 is dominated by IBM with 8 machines. Apart from the number one HP, there is an Hitachi at position 7.

In total the European TOP500 supercomputers represent 72 Tflop/s of computing power. This is 24% of the world-wide power. Biggest European supercomputer country is Germany. It has 71 supercomputers with a total of 25 Tflop/s. Second country is the UK, third France.

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CountryNumber of machinesPerformance in Tflop/s
Germany7125
United Kingdom3921
France229.6
Italy165.5
The Netherlands6
Sweden52.3
Finland41.8
Belgium40.8
Norway31.0

The European countries with more that one entry in the TOP500.

The site with the most supercomputers in the world, is BMW in Munich. There are 10 supercomputers installed by this automotive company. The biggest US sit is Lawrence Livermore Laboratory that only has 7 supercomputers.

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