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The majority of world’s supercomputers continue to run on Intel processors and make use of Nvidia GPU accelerators, according to the latest bi-annual Top500 rankings.
The rankings reveal that, with a share of 86.2%, Intel continues to be the dominant processor provider of the top 500 systems, with Skylake accounting for 35.2%, followed by Broadwell at 24.4%, and Cascade Lake at 16.8%.
Furthermore, a total of 145 systems on the list are using accelerator/co-processor technology, with 96 of these relying on Nvidia Volta chips, while 26 use Nvidia Ampere, and nine run Nvidia Pascal.
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Top500 notes that supercomputers are getting faster, with the entry point for the top 100 rising to 4.13 Petaflop/s. In fact, the last placed system on the current list was 49 places up at position 451 in the previous top 500 ranking.
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There isn’t much change in the list of top ten supercomputers, with Fugaku, powered by Fujitsu’s custom Arm A64FX processor, retaining the top spot with three-times the performance of IBM Summit at number two.
The top ten does get a new entrant in the form of the Perlmutter supercomputer designed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC).
Installed at the Department of Energy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, Perlmutter is based on the HPE Cray “Shasta” platform. The supercomputer is a heterogeneous system with both Nvidia A100-powered GPU-accelerated and AMD EPYC-based CPU-only nodes.
Also of note is the fact that, while Intel’s 86.2% share of the top 500 has come down from 91.8% six months ago, AMD has increased its share from 4.2% to 9.8% in the same period.
Overall, AMD powers a total of 49 supercomputers, of which 43 use AMD Rome. Also, while three of the top 10 supercomputers use AMD, the majority of the Green 500 energy-efficient supercomputers are powered by the company’s chips.
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The rankings reveal that, with a share of 86.2%, Intel continues to be the dominant processor provider of the top 500 systems, with Skylake accounting for 35.2%, followed by Broadwell at 24.4%, and Cascade Lake at 16.8%.
Furthermore, a total of 145 systems on the list are using accelerator/co-processor technology, with 96 of these relying on Nvidia Volta chips, while 26 use Nvidia Ampere, and nine run Nvidia Pascal.
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Top500 notes that supercomputers are getting faster, with the entry point for the top 100 rising to 4.13 Petaflop/s. In fact, the last placed system on the current list was 49 places up at position 451 in the previous top 500 ranking.
[HEADING=1]More of the same[/HEADING]
There isn’t much change in the list of top ten supercomputers, with Fugaku, powered by Fujitsu’s custom Arm A64FX processor, retaining the top spot with three-times the performance of IBM Summit at number two.
The top ten does get a new entrant in the form of the Perlmutter supercomputer designed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC).
Installed at the Department of Energy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, Perlmutter is based on the HPE Cray “Shasta” platform. The supercomputer is a heterogeneous system with both Nvidia A100-powered GPU-accelerated and AMD EPYC-based CPU-only nodes.
Also of note is the fact that, while Intel’s 86.2% share of the top 500 has come down from 91.8% six months ago, AMD has increased its share from 4.2% to 9.8% in the same period.
Overall, AMD powers a total of 49 supercomputers, of which 43 use AMD Rome. Also, while three of the top 10 supercomputers use AMD, the majority of the Green 500 energy-efficient supercomputers are powered by the company’s chips.
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