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Alliance Puts Seven Supercomputing Systems in Top500 List

released November 7, 2000

The November 2000 edition of the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers includes seven Alliance supercomputing systems at five partenr sites: NCSA, the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), the University of New Mexico, the University of Kentucky, and Boston University.

The highest-ranking Alliance system is the IBM SP Power3 at MHPCC, up to rank 57 from 97 in June. According to the list, the system had an achieved performance of 327 billion floating-point operations per second (gigaflops). The second highest Alliance system is the 1,024-processor Origin2000 system at the NCSA, in 69th place with a performance of 265 Gflops. New on the list was the IBM LosLobos supercluster at the University of New Mexico. It pulled in the third highest ranking for the Alliance at 80. Other Alliance systems that made the list include the IBM SP2 at MHPCC, the Hewlett Packard N4000 system at the University of Kentucky, the NT supercluster at NCSA, and the Origin2000 array at Boston University.

The Top500 list is compiled twice a year by Jack Dongarra, a researcher at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an Alliance partner, and by Hans Meuer and Erich Strohmaier of the University of Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany. Performance rankings are based on the best Linpack benchmark performance achieved. For the complete Top500 list, see http://www.Top500.org/.

 

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