Diapositive PPT
- world‘s fastest supercomputers :
- Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), USA
- TOP 500 Supercomputer Sites (http://www.top500.org)
- current world leader : ASCI White :
- 12.3 Tflops peak performance
- IBM RS/6000 SP cluster with 8,192 cpu‘s (512 * 16),
- 6 TB memory, 160 TB disk storage space ($110 Mio)
- size of two basketball courts
- DOE / LLNL (fully installed by the end of 2000)
- 1000 times faster than chess computer Deep Blue
- German leader :
- Hitachi SR 8000
- 1.34 Tflops
- Leibniz Computing Center (Munich, Germany)