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Sites Making the List the First Time
SC12 Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov 2012
Hans Meuer, University of Mannheim /Prometeus, Mannheim / Daisbach, Germany

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Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers in the List 11/2012 : 30
No Rank Site Vendor / Country System
National Computational Infrastructure,
1 24 Fujitsu / Australia Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX250 S1, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Australian National University
2 53 DOE/National Energy Technology Laboratory SGI / USA HPCEE - SGI Rackable C2112-4RP3, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband QDR
Army Research Laboratory DoD
3 60 Supercomputing Resource Center (ARL IBM / USA Pershing - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
DSRC)
Army Research Laboratory DoD
79 Supercomputing Resource Center (ARL IBM / USA Hercules - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
DSRC)
Southern Ontario Smart Computing
4 66 Innovation Consortium/University of IBM / Canada BGQ - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
Toronto
Southern Ontario Smart Computing
403 Innovation Consortium/University of IBM / Canada BGQdev - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
Toronto
5 67 Wright-Patterson AFB SGI / USA SGI Altix X, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
6 70 IBM / USA Haise - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
71 IBM / USA Kilrain - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
471 IBM / USA Cernan - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
(Navy DSRC)
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22 251 IT Services Provider 5 HP /USA Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband QDR
23 272 Service Provider IBM / USA xSeries x3550M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
24 273 ERDC ORC Cray Inc. / USA Copper - Cray XE6m-200, Opteron 6276 16C 2.300GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect
25 279 Electrionic Industry HP /USA Cluster Platform 4000 BL685c, Opteron 6140 8C 2.600GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
26 306 Electrionic Industry HP /USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2660 8C 2.200GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
27 341 SGI SGI / USA SGI Altix X, Xeon E5-2690 8C 2.900GHz, Infiniband FDR
28 342 Financial Securities IBM / USA iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, 10G Ethernet
29 358 IT Services Provider 6 HP /USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
30 379 Software Company HP / Taiwan Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2667 6C 2.900GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
Share of Countries USA: 21 / Sweden: 2 / Others: 7
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Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers in the List 06/2012 : 25
No Rank Site Vendor / Country System
1 23 IBM Development Engineering IBM / USA DARPA Trial Subset - Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom
2 30 IDRIS/GENCI IBM / France BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
3 31 Victorian Life Sciences Computation
Initiative IBM / Australia Avoca - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
4 58 CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and
Computer Simulation HP / India Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Infiniband FDR
5 80 Tianhe-1A Guangzhou Solution - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X56xx (Westmere-EP) 2.93
Super Computer Center in Guangzhou NUDT / China GHz, Proprietary
6 86 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space SAGA - Z24XX/SL390s Cluster, Xeon E5530/E5645 6C 2.40GHz, Infiniband QDR,
Research Organisation HP/WIPRO / India NVIDIA 2090/2070
7 106 Research Institute for Information
Technology, Kyushu University Fujitsu / Japan PRIMEHPC FX10, SPARC64 IXfx 16C 1.848GHz, Tofu interconnect
8 118 VSC / Flemish Supercomputer Center HP / Belgium Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Infiniband FDR
9 127 Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8, Xeon E5-2660 8C 2.200GHz, Infiniband FDR, NVIDIA
Research Center HP / China 2090
357 Research Center HP / China HP DL160 Cluster G6, Xeon X5650 6C 2.660GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
10 134 Durham University IBM / UK iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
11 155 Government HP / UK Cluster Platform 3000 BL280c G6, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
12 159 Science and Technology Facilities Council - HP / UK EMERALD - Cluster Platform SL390s G7, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Infiniband QDR,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory NVIDIA 2090
13 161 E-Security - Selex Elsag Eurotech / Italy Aurora - Eurotech Aurora, Xeon X5690 6C 3.470GHz, Infiniband QDR, NVIDIA 2090
14 250 Logistic Services HP / USA Cluster Platform 4000 BL685c G7, Opteron 6276 16C 2.30GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
15 270 Numazu Complex, Fujitsu Limited Fujitsu / Japan PRIMEHPC FX10, SPARC64 IXfx 16C 1.848GHz, Tofu interconnect
16 286 Government HP / Canada Cluster Platform 4000 BL465c, Opteron 6134 8C 2.30GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
17 291 Leeds N8 SGI / UK N8 - Raackable Cluster, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband QD
18 310 Electronics IBM / China xSeries x3650M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
311 Electronics IBM / China xSeries x3650M3 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
19 335 Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) IBM / Slovak Republic Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom
20 383 Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.60GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, NVIDIA
Telecommunication Company HP / China 2090
21 397 New York University at Abu Dhabi HP / United Arab Emirates BuTinah - Cluster Platform SL390/BL2x220, Xeon X5675 6C 3.06GHz, Infiniband QDR
22 417 Government HP / Singapore Cluster Platform SL390s G7, Xeon X5690 6C 3.47GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, NVIDIA 2090
23 446 Media Company HP / USA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c G7, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
24 460 Internet Service IBM / China xSeries x3650 Cluster, Xeon E5649 6C 2.530GHz, Gigabit Ethernet
25 477 Automotive Company IBM / USA iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.600GHz, Infiniband FDR
Share of Countries China: 6 / USA: 4 / UK: 3 / Japan: 2 / Others: 10
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4.
TOP500 First Time Sites – Survey
39. TOP500 List /June 2012
 25 Newcomer Sites (3) What kind of information do you seek
 35% returned answers concerning the TOP500 project? (answers summarized)
 Architecture, system size & performance of
TOP500 systems
 Details of certain systems (CPU cores, power
(1) Do you assign consumption etc.)
 Overall trends in top HPC systems
a value to your
 Source of data for making predictions on future
TOP500 listings? evolution
 Information about other academic institutions,
vendors and trends
(2) How often do
(4) Do you find
you visit the
sufficient infor-
TOP500 website at
mation on the
www.top500.org?
TOP500 website?
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5.
Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Sites) from 06/1993 to 11/2012
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Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Systems) from 06/1993 to 11/2012
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Sites making the List the First Time
Newcomers (Systems) versus Exchange Rate
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