25th Edition of Top500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Released: DOE/LLNL BlueGene/L and IBM gain Top Positions (June 2005)

摘要

In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today (June 22, 2005) at the 20th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2005) in Heidelberg Germany. The No. 1 position was again claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. BlueGene/L also occupied the No. 1 position on the last TOP500 list issued in November 2004. However, the system was doubled in size during the last six months and reached a new record Linpack benchmark performance of 136.8 TFlop/s ('teraflops' or trillions of calculations per second). This system, once completed, will again be doubled in size and is expected to remain the No. 1 Supercomputer in the world for the next few editions of the TOP500 list.