Authorities6 %

Industry14 %

HPC Manufacturers

30 % Press / Consultants

3 %

Universities31 %

Research Institutes

16 %

AttendanceAttendanceSupercomputer `98Supercomputer `98

183 Registrations

Presentation of the 11th List Hans- Werner MeuerUniversity of Mannheim

Supercomputer '98 ConferenceMannheim, June 18-20, 1998Opening Session, June 18, 11:00 - 12:30

Background InformationBackground Information

- started in 6/93 by Jack J. Dongarra, Hans W. Meuer and Erich Strohmaier

- now Project of the Universities of Mannheim and Tennessee

- TOP500 Motivation - Analysis of the HCP market - Recognition of trends (market, architecture, technology)

TOP500 ProcedureTOP500 Procedure

- Listing of the 500 most powerful Computers in theWorld - Yardstick: Rmax /LINPACK - Updating halfyearly

TOP500 StatusTOP500 Status

- Accepted by Users and Manufacturers - TOP500 Reports published yearly

TOP500 list - Data shownTOP500 list - Data shown• Manufacturer Manufacturer or vendor

• Computer Type indicated by manufacturer or vendor

• Inst. Site Customer

• Location Location and country

• Year Year of installation/last major update

• Field of Appl. Academic,Research,Industry,Vendor,Classified

• # Proc. Number of processors

• Rmax Maxmimal LINPACK performance achieved

• Rpeak Theoretical peak performance

• Nmax Problemsize for achieving Rmax

• N1/2 Problemsize for achieving half of Rmax

• Nworld Position within the TOP500 ranking

WWW offerWWW offer - 2 primary sites Mannheim http://www.top500.org Netlib http://netlib.org/benchmark/top500.html

- 1 mirror in Japan Phase http://phase.etl.go.jp/TOP500/

- All 11 lists are available now

- Create your own sublists and charts

- Slides are available (e.g. developments over time)

- New Web representation sponsored by HPCnet

Access our Top500 offer in the Web !

Intel ASCI RedIntel ASCI Red

Performance Development

39285895

13106

11682142

22628

7,73,32

0,40,8

13,4

2,14,8

9,7 13,725,3

40,3

1068

220,4170,4143,4

59,7

1338

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1

10

100

1000

10000

100000

6/93

11/9

36/

94

11/9

46/

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11/9

56/

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11/9

66/

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11/9

76/

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Fujitsu'NWT' NAL

Intel XP/S140Sandia

Cray XP/S140NASA/Marshall

Space Flight Center

SGIPOWER

CHALLENGEWestern Atlas

HitachiSR 2201/1024

Uni Tokyo

ConvexSPP 1000/XA-32

Uni Michigan

IntelASCI Red

Sandia

IBM SP/2/38UCLA

CM-5/1024Los Alamos

SNI VP200debis München

N=1

N=100

N=500

Sum

Sun HPC 10000 Walgreens Co.

IntelASCI Red

Sandia

Continents

286

11483

17

229 272

140 123

109 8722 18

050

100150200250300350

6/93

11/9

3

6/94

11/9

4

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11/9

5

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11/9

6

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11/9

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# S

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USAEuropeJapanother

Continents - Performance

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756

6761

5355

3073

3734

277 4410

2000

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8000

10000

12000

14000

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EuropeJapanother

Systems Systems Installed InManufactured In USA/Can Japan Europe Other Total

USA 284 32 100 15 431Japan 2 51 14 2 69

Total 286 83 114 17 500

Systems R max [GFLOPS] Installed InManufactured In USA/Can Japan Europe Other Total

USA 12837 815 4645 352 18649Japan 261 2919 710 89 3979

Total 13098 3734 5355 441 22628

Systems GFLOPS per System InManufactured In USA/Can Japan Europe Other Total

USA 45,2 25,5 46,5 23,5 43,3Japan 130,5 57,2 50,7 44,5 57,7-Total 45,8 45,0 47,0 25,9 45,3

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Total: 114

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Node Technology

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147

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CMOS off the shelf ECL CMOS proprietary

Application Areas

177 180

94

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ReasearchIndustryAcademicClassifiedVendor

Application Areas Performance

6808

11290

3258

42053649

2754

734

990467

1938

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1849

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Reasearch

Academic

Industry

Classified

Vendor

others

Industry

ResearchAcademic100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 [%]

100 [%]

50 [%]

SunSGI

IBM

Application Areas - Kiviat DiagramApplication Areas - Kiviat Diagram

Hitachi

Industry

ResearchAcademic100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 [%]

100 [%]

50 [%]

NECFujitsu

HP

Application Areas - Kiviat DiagramApplication Areas - Kiviat Diagram

RANKMANU-

FACTURERCOMPUTER RMAX

INSTALLATIONSITE

COUNTRY YEARAREA OF

INSTALLATION#

PROC

1 Intel ASCI Red 1068000Sandia National

Labs AlbuquerqueUSA 1997 Research 7264

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

500 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz13390

WalgreensCompany

USA 1998 Industry/Database 24

Excerpt from TOP500 6/98Excerpt from TOP500 6/98

Excerpt from TOP500 6/98Excerpt from TOP500 6/98RANK

MANU-FACTURER

COMPUTER RMAXINSTALLATION

SITECOUNTRY YEAR

AREA OFINSTALLATION

#PROC

1 Intel ASCI Red 1068000Sandia National

Labs AlbuquerqueUSA 1997 Research 7264

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

315 DigitalAvalon

Cluster19330

Los AlamosNational Labs

USA 1998 Academic 68

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

500 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz13390

WalgreensCompany

USA 1998 Industry/Database 24

RANKMANU-

FACTURERCOMPUTER RMAX

INSTALLATIONSITE

COUNTRY YEARAREA OF

INSTALLATION#

PROC

1 Intel ASCI Red 1068000Sandia National

Labs AlbuquerqueUSA 1997 Research 7264

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

500 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz13390

WalgreensCompany

USA 1998 Industry/Database 24

Excerpt from TOP500 6/98Excerpt from TOP500 6/98

Excerpt from TOP500 6/98Excerpt from TOP500 6/98RANK

MANU-FACTURER

COMPUTER RMAXINSTALLATION

SITECOUNTRY YEAR

AREA OFINSTALLATION

#PROC

1 Intel ASCI Red 1068000Sandia National

Labs AlbuquerqueUSA 1997 Research 7264

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

141-145

SunHPC 10000

333 MHz34170 Commerzbank Germany 1998 Industry/Finance 64

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

217 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz23310 Commerzbank Germany 1998 Industry/Finance 42

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

230 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz22270 Commerzbank Germany 1998 Industry/Finance 40

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

500 SunHPC 10000

333 MHz13390

WalgreensCompany

USA 1998 Industry/Database 24

Congratulations

Mr. Riccardo Gambineri

Vice President

Production & Control Investment Banking IT and International Financial Business

Larry Smarr Bill Clinton

Keynote PresentationKeynote PresentationSupercomputers:

Directions in Technology, Architecture and Applications

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, NCSA, Urbana Champaign