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Top500 has released its 54th edition of the list comprising of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, and all the supercomputers in the list have one thing in common – Linux. The average speed of the supercomputers featured in the list is now 1.65 exaflops, and the entry-level supercomputer now performs at 1.14 petaflops […]
You might have heard about many powerful supercomputers. As of 2019, the fastest supercomputer in the world is Summit. It’s located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. In the coming future, we are going to see a new kind of supercomputer that won’t just be bigger than Summit in terms of size; […]
Intel has joined hands with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to launch its first supercomputer with an exascale performance in the U.S. The supercomputer, going by the name Aurora, will be developed by Intel and sub-contractor Cray and delivered to DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago by 2021. The contract between Intel and DOE […]
Just recently we told you about the IBM Summit supercomputer that is developed for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. The computing beast is being called the most powerful supercomputer yet, beating China’s Sunway. Summit has tasted another bread of success as the TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers renews for the year 2018. It’s […]
Short Bytes: Top500 has released its latest list of the world’s faster supercomputers. Linux has once again emerged as a winner, establishing its authority on 498 out of the top 500 machines. The remaining 2 are running IBM AIX, a Unix variant. Both China and the US claim 171 machines each in the latest list. The […]