THE Top 10 Computing Powerhouses
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Intel’s ASCI Red, the largest computer in the world, heads a list of the world’s top supercomputer sites, at
https://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html. Silicon Graphics/Cray Research holds five of the top 10 sites on the list.
(Computer: Installation site)
1. Intel ASCI Red: Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque
2. Silicon Graphics/Cray T3E900 LC1248-128: U.S. government*
3. Silicon Graphics/Cray T3E900 LC840-128: U.K. Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Britain
4. Hitachi/Tsukuba CP-PACS/2048: Center for Computational Physics, U. of Tsukuba, Japan
5. Silicon Graphics/Cray T3E900 LC512-256: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Berkeley
6. Hitachi SR2201/1024: U. of Tokyo, Japan
7. Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel: National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
8. Fujitsu vpp700/116: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Britain
9. SGI/Cray T3E LC672-128: Max Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP, Garching, Germany
10. SGI/Cray T3E LC544-128: Cray Research, Eagan, Minn.
* The location of this computer is classified.
Sources: Hans Meuer and Erich Strohmaier, University of Mannheim (Germany); Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
