The new top500 super-calculation list was released.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public number “New Intelligence” (ID: AI_era), Source: ZDnet, Editor: Daming.
The new top-period Top500 list was announced, and the top 10 rankings of computing power did not change from the previous period, but performance was generally improved. China occupies 227 of the list, ranking first among countries, with a total computing power of 31.9%, second only to the US’s 37.8%, and continues to rank second in the world. Let’s discuss it with New Wisdom AI Circle of Friends and AI Big Coffee.
Recently, the news about the traditional super-calculation of quantum computing is endless. For example, a quantum computer takes only 200 seconds, which is equivalent to 10,000 years of traditional super-calculation. That’s right. But the current simple fact is that for almost all computing tasks, supercomputers are faster than any other device on the planet.
In the newly released Top 500 supercomputer list, the average level of these Linux-based computing monsters has gone even further, and the average computing power per device has reached an astonishing 1.14 petaflops.
Since the release of the Supercomputer Top 500 list in June 2019, the rankings have not changed. At present, the top ranked power is still the Summit system of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, which is 148.6 petafl.The HPL results of ops received the highest honor. This IBM supercomputer uses the Power9 CPU and the NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU.
The second place on the list is also IBM’s supercomputer: Sierra of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It uses the same chip as the Summit, but the calculation speed is “only” 94.6 petaflops.
Following is the “Shenwei-Taihu Light” supercomputer with an HPL tag speed of 93.0 petaflops. “Light of Taihu Lake” was developed by China National Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology Research Center (NRCPC) and installed at Wuxi National Supercomputing Center. It is powered entirely by Sunway’s SW26010 processor.
The ranking is followed by Tianhe 2A. This is a system developed by China National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and deployed at the National Supercomputer Center of China. Powered by Intel Xeon CPUs and Matrix-2000 accelerators, the top speed is 61.4 petaflops.
The Frontera Dell C6420 system from Dell is ranked 5th and is supported by the Intel Xeon Platinum processor. The computing speed is 23.5 petaflops and is located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas.
Top500 super-calculation: China ranks first, the United States is the number one, and Lenovo dominates the brand list
China is currently developing more and higher performance supercomputers. Today, China has nearly half (227) of the world’s fastest supercomputer top 500. At the same time, the number of super-calculations in the United States is close to its lowest point in history, at 118. But on average, the US’s super-calculation is bigger and faster. In terms of overall performance, the US supercomputer computing power accounted for 37.8% of the total score of the list. China followed closely with 31.9%.
China is making progress. In the previous ranking, the proportion in the United States was 38.4%, and that in China was 29.9%.
According to the “IT big mouth” statistics, the number of platforms using Intel x86 architecture in this top500 list is 474 sets (including 26 sets of CascadeLake platform), accounting for 94.8% of the total list; using AMD There are 4 sets of platform systems (2 sets of Rome platforms using ZEN2, 60th and 434th sets respectively, provided by Atos), accounting for 0.8%; 14 sets of Power platform, occupying 2.8%, others are some personality System, such as China’s Shenwei series.
At the brand level, Lenovo Lenovo took the first place with 177 systems; Zhongke Shuguang ranked second with 71 systems; the same 71 systems were HPC/Cray (two synthetic ones), of which 38 From Cary, the remaining 33 sets came from HPE; China’s wave ranked third with 66 systems.
Finally, no matter which hardware is used, the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers have one thing in common: they all run on Linux.
Reference link:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers-hit-higher-speeds-than-ever-with-linux/
Latest list address:
httpS://www.top500.org/lists/2019/11/
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