TOP500 List
A TOP500 List is a ranked list of the 500 HPC systems (Top500 systems) with the highest LINPACK benchmark scores.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be generated semiannually.
- It can (typically) report TOP500 Statistics, such as TOP500 Performance[1]
- It can (typically) publish a TOP500-based Projection Chart, which predicts an ExaFLOP System by around 2020.
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- Example(s):
- https://www.top500.org/lists/2016/06/
- the November 2014 TOP500 List http://www.top500.org/lists/2014/11/ https://www.top500.org/list/2016/06/
- the November 2013 TOP500 List http://www.top500.org/lists/2013/11/ http://s.top500.org/static/lists/2013/11/TOP500_201311.xls
- the June 2012 TOP500 List http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06 and http://s.top500.org/static/lists/2012/06/TOP500_201206.xls
- the November 2012 TOP500 List http://s.top500.org/static/lists/2012/11/TOP500_201211.xls
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Supercomputer, Supercomputer, International Supercomputing Conference.
References
2019
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 Retrieved:2016-7-13.
- The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented in November at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference. The project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing and bases rankings on HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers. As of July 2016, the Sunway TaihuLight is the most powerful supercomputer, reaching 93.015 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmarks.
The TOP500 list is compiled by Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (and, from 1993 until his death in 2014, Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany.)
- The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented in November at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference. The project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing and bases rankings on HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers. As of July 2016, the Sunway TaihuLight is the most powerful supercomputer, reaching 93.015 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmarks.
2012
- http://www.top500.org/project/introduction
- In the present list (which we call the TOP500), we list computers ranked by their performance on the LINPACK Benchmark. While we make every attempt to verify the results obtained from users and vendors, errors are bound to exist and should be brought to our attention. We intend to continue to update this list half-yearly and, in this way, to keep track with the evolution of computers. Hence, we welcome any comments and information; please use the following mail form. The list is freely available at http://www.top500.org/ where you can create additional sublists and statistics out of the TOP500 database on your own. Here you also have access to postscript versions of slides dealing with the interpretation of the present situation as well as with the evolution over time since we started this project.
The main objective of the TOP500 list is to provide a ranked list of general purpose systems that are in common use for high end applications. The authors of the Top500 reserve the right to independently verify submitted LINPACK results, and exclude systems from the list which are not valid or not general purpose in nature. By general purpose system we mean that the computer system must be able to be used to solve a range of scientific problems. Any system designed specifically to solve the LINPACK benchmark problem or have as its major purpose the goal of a high Top500 ranking will be disqualified.
- In the present list (which we call the TOP500), we list computers ranked by their performance on the LINPACK Benchmark. While we make every attempt to verify the results obtained from users and vendors, errors are bound to exist and should be brought to our attention. We intend to continue to update this list half-yearly and, in this way, to keep track with the evolution of computers. Hence, we welcome any comments and information; please use the following mail form. The list is freely available at http://www.top500.org/ where you can create additional sublists and statistics out of the TOP500 database on your own. Here you also have access to postscript versions of slides dealing with the interpretation of the present situation as well as with the evolution over time since we started this project.