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A new list was published on top500.org. It might be noteworthy that the NSA, Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. are not submitting information to this list. Currently, the top two places are occupied by China, with a comfortable 400% head-start in peak-performance and 370% Rmax performance to the 3rd place (Switzerland). US appears on rank 4, Japan on rank 7, and Germany is not in the top ten at all.
All operating systems in the top-10 are Linux and derivates. It seems obvious that, since it is highly optimized hardware, only operating systems are viable which can be fine-tune (so, either open source or with vendor-support for such customizations). Still I would have thought that, since a lot of effort needs to be invested anyway, maybe other systems (BSD?) could be equally suited to the task.
takyon: TSUBAME3.0 leads the Green500 list with 14.110 gigaflops per Watt. Piz Daint is #3 on the TOP500 and #6 on the Green500 list, at 10.398 gigaflops per Watt.
According to TOP500, this is only the second time in the history of the list that the U.S. has not secured one of the top 3 positions.
The #100 and #500 positions on June 2017's list have an Rmax of 1.193 petaflops and 432.2 teraflops respectively. Compare to 1.0733 petaflops and 349.3 teraflops for the November 2016 list.
[Update: Historical lists can be found on https://www.top500.org/lists/. There was a time when you only needed 0.4 gigaflops to make the original Top500 list — how do today's mobile phones compare? --martyb]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:52PM (12 children)
You learn something new every day.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:59PM (1 child)
You'll never find computing so fast or bureaucracy so slow, the contrast is always amusing.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:32PM
It is probably a reciprocal relation.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:23PM (4 children)
Government's role is NOT supercomputing.
Government's role is snooping on its citizens. For prevention and early discovery of thought crime.
Supercomputers are merely a means to that necessary end. It's for our own good.
Plus, supercomputers can help with weather forecasting.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:05PM (3 children)
What do you think #5 on the list is mostly used for? I'll give you a clue: it's not for weather forecasting.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:32PM (1 child)
Department of Energy doesn't sound so scary. What could they possibly model, involving enormous amounts of energy, that could be more important than weather? And no need to model on supercomputers. Just do above ground tests in New Jersey.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 21 2017, @04:34PM
Quiet you fool!
Our only hope is that Rick Perry never finds out that he's in charge of the nukes!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @08:38PM
Is that the DOE's email server?
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:54PM (4 children)
Because you don't need supercomputers to do things like model nuclear reactions in bombs or provide weather and climate predictions.
No, of course governments doesn't need supercomputers. I'm sure the Koch Brothers will provide one any day now. </sarcasm>
Idiot!
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:17PM (2 children)
What would we be without government? Just a bunch of cave-dwelling Neanderthals, minding our own business.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:36PM (1 child)
No. We would do what we've always done. Divide into two groups. The cave dwelling Neanderthals minding their own business. And the Neanderthals that realize it's easier to steal other people's food than hunt / grow your own. And they can copulate with the peaceful group's women without having to deal with any of the consequences.
Thus begins the emergence of laws and government and two party system.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:19PM
You seem to imply that Trump is a violent aggressive Neanderthal that lies and steals, and then just walks up to peaceful Neanderthal women and grabs them by their pussy....
Yeah, I think your analogy works out just fine :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:28PM
Ohhh, with Orange Anus fully on board with the Republican position that Climate Change doesn't exist, and our exit from the Paris agreement, weather prediction and modeling just got a lot easier.
It's going to be hotter. There's your 100 year forecast :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.