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Top 5 world's fastest computers
Twice a year, the operators of the fastest computers in the world are eagerly awaiting the results of the latest rankings, compiled by the project «Top500». The list is based on the maximum speed at which the computer can process all the operations using the so-called "floating point».
7 figures
5th place: Tianhe-1
performance: 563 teraflops
New to the list of Top500, the fastest computer in China was able to produce more than 500 trillion operations per second. For comparison, the performance of a conventional calculator about 10 flops.
"Tianhe", which means "river in the sky", is located in the heart of the National Supercomputing in Tianjin. It is more than four times faster than its predecessor - fastest computer in China. The computer combines 6144 Intel processor with 5120 GPUs produced AMD, which often can be found in computer graphics cards.
4th place: Jugene
performance: 825 teraflops
At the same time, another super-fast computer Jugene, located at the Center for Supercomputing Jülich, Germany, based on the design of computer architecture IBM - «Blue Gene / P», which uses many small, low-powerful chips. Individual processors in this design have a maximum speed of 850 megahertz, slower than the average home computer. However, 292,000 chips working together make it the fastest machine in Europe.
3rd place: Kraken
Capacity: 831 teraflops
Kraken, located at the National Institute of Computational Science and funded by the National Science Federation, the United States, is located in the National Laboratory of Tennessee. This athlete has 100,000 dual-core Opteron, produced by AMD (commonly used in high-performance servers and workstations).
Kraken is the fastest computer in the world among those who owned and operated educational institution - the University of Tennessee. In October of 2009. University Federation allocated another $ 10 million to create a new computer - Nautilus, to analyze the results of the Kraken.
This is the most detailed modeling of earthquake ever made by mankind. It was built by Kraken, he has shown what happens when you shift the San Andreas Fault in California.
Modeling shows how shock waves disperse in the region after the quake.
2nd place: Roadrunner
Performance 1042 teraflops, or 1, 042 petaflops.
Since June 2008 until November 2009, this car was the fastest in the world. Roadrunner was the first computer that is ever in the history of humanity exceeded the 1 petaflop barrier - 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
Roadrunner in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The computer has an unusual design that combines dual-core processors AMD, found in many computer users, and the nine-core Cell, is the heart of the game console Sony PlayStation 3.
1st place: Jaguar
Performance: 1, 8 petaflops
With a rate of increase of close to 70 per cent than Roadrunner, Jaguar supergiant located in the National Laboratory of US Department of Energy is already adjacent to the above-described computer Kraken. He - the fastest car in the world. Maybe that's why the city of Oak Ridge house where these two titans have the highest computer equipment in the world.
Launched in 2008 alone, 181 000 Jaguar cores only started work in 2009. Unusually for facilities financed by the US government, it -grazhdansky computer! DOE previously built their fast cars, such as the Roadrunner, to simulate nuclear explosions.
Much of Jaguar's focus on modeling climate change and energy, as well as the study of other sciences, for example, the study of water structure.
Modeling produced by Jaguar: the flow of carbon dioxide released and absorbed by the soil and vegetation, at the time of sunrise over Eastern Europe.
Strong absorption is shown green and white, and most strongly in the tropics. Red and white color shows the area that produce CO 2 in the atmosphere, most strongly in Central Africa, where the sun does not shine.
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7 figures
5th place: Tianhe-1
performance: 563 teraflops
New to the list of Top500, the fastest computer in China was able to produce more than 500 trillion operations per second. For comparison, the performance of a conventional calculator about 10 flops.
"Tianhe", which means "river in the sky", is located in the heart of the National Supercomputing in Tianjin. It is more than four times faster than its predecessor - fastest computer in China. The computer combines 6144 Intel processor with 5120 GPUs produced AMD, which often can be found in computer graphics cards.
4th place: Jugene
performance: 825 teraflops
At the same time, another super-fast computer Jugene, located at the Center for Supercomputing Jülich, Germany, based on the design of computer architecture IBM - «Blue Gene / P», which uses many small, low-powerful chips. Individual processors in this design have a maximum speed of 850 megahertz, slower than the average home computer. However, 292,000 chips working together make it the fastest machine in Europe.
3rd place: Kraken
Capacity: 831 teraflops
Kraken, located at the National Institute of Computational Science and funded by the National Science Federation, the United States, is located in the National Laboratory of Tennessee. This athlete has 100,000 dual-core Opteron, produced by AMD (commonly used in high-performance servers and workstations).
Kraken is the fastest computer in the world among those who owned and operated educational institution - the University of Tennessee. In October of 2009. University Federation allocated another $ 10 million to create a new computer - Nautilus, to analyze the results of the Kraken.
This is the most detailed modeling of earthquake ever made by mankind. It was built by Kraken, he has shown what happens when you shift the San Andreas Fault in California.
Modeling shows how shock waves disperse in the region after the quake.
2nd place: Roadrunner
Performance 1042 teraflops, or 1, 042 petaflops.
Since June 2008 until November 2009, this car was the fastest in the world. Roadrunner was the first computer that is ever in the history of humanity exceeded the 1 petaflop barrier - 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
Roadrunner in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The computer has an unusual design that combines dual-core processors AMD, found in many computer users, and the nine-core Cell, is the heart of the game console Sony PlayStation 3.
1st place: Jaguar
Performance: 1, 8 petaflops
With a rate of increase of close to 70 per cent than Roadrunner, Jaguar supergiant located in the National Laboratory of US Department of Energy is already adjacent to the above-described computer Kraken. He - the fastest car in the world. Maybe that's why the city of Oak Ridge house where these two titans have the highest computer equipment in the world.
Launched in 2008 alone, 181 000 Jaguar cores only started work in 2009. Unusually for facilities financed by the US government, it -grazhdansky computer! DOE previously built their fast cars, such as the Roadrunner, to simulate nuclear explosions.
Much of Jaguar's focus on modeling climate change and energy, as well as the study of other sciences, for example, the study of water structure.
Modeling produced by Jaguar: the flow of carbon dioxide released and absorbed by the soil and vegetation, at the time of sunrise over Eastern Europe.
Strong absorption is shown green and white, and most strongly in the tropics. Red and white color shows the area that produce CO 2 in the atmosphere, most strongly in Central Africa, where the sun does not shine.
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