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martyb [soylentnews.org] writes:

Every six months TOP500.org announces its list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers. The new TOP500 list [top500.org] -- their 55th -- was announced today with a brand new system at the top.

Installed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, the system is named Fugaku [top500.org]. It is comprised of Fujitsu A64FX SoCs, each of which sports 48 cores at 2.2 GHz and is based on the ARM architecture. In total, it has 7,299,072 cores and attains an Rmax of 415.5 (PFlop/s) on the High Performance Linpack benchmark.

The previous top system is now in 2nd place. The Summit [top500.org] is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was built by IBM. Each node has two 22-core 3.07 GHz Power9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. With a total of 2,414,592 cores, it is rated at an Rmax of 148.6 (PFlop/s).

Rounding out the top 3 is the Sierra [top500.org] which is also by IBM. It has 22-core POWER9 CPUs running at 3.1GHz and NVIDIA Volta GV100 GPUs. Its score is 94.6 (PFlop/s).

When the list was first published in June of 1993, the top system on the list, installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was a CM-5/1024 by Thinking Machines Corporation. Comprised of 1,024 cores, it was rated at a peak of 59.7 Rmax (GFlop/s). (It would require over 8.6 million of them to match the compute power of today's number one system.) On that first list, 500th place went to an HPE C3840 having 4 cores and an Rmax of 0.4 (GFlop/s). Yes, that is 400 KFlop/s.

I wonder how today's cell phones would rate against that first list?

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