When it comes to supercomputers, there are
challenges all over the world. If you take a look
at the TOP500 list then you’ll see that Asia and
USA are currently fighting for Rank 1 on this list.

But there are also competitors from Switzerland and Germany.

SuperMUC is the newest competitor and has ben set operative on Setember 25^th, 2018

70PB storage, 700TB RAM, these are numbers that might sound weenie against the “Summit”, but if you regard it from the point of view as an all-purpose system, SuperMUC might show “Summit” it’s limits as “Summit” gets it’s power from GPU cores. SuperMUC might get Rank 1 as an all-purpose Super Computer when it comes to AXV512 processing power – a weakness of sole GPU calculation.

And as this is not the full scaled super computer yet, there might be other surprises coming soon as well.

So “Congrationations, Munich, for entering the summit of Super computers!”

The Top10 List from June 2018 is, as follows:

Rank	Country	System	Cores	Rmax (TFlop/s)	Rpeak (TFlop/s)	Power (kW)
1		Summit – IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband , IBM DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States	2,282,544	122,300.0	187,659.3	8,806
2		Sunway TaihuLight – Sunway MPP, Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz, Sunway , NRCPC National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi China	10,649,600	93,014.6	125,435.9	15,371
3		Sierra – IBM Power System S922LC, IBM POWER9 22C 3.1GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband , IBM DOE/NNSA/LLNL United States	1,572,480	71,610.0	119,193.6	N/A
4		Tianhe-2A – TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692v2 12C 2.2GHz, TH Express-2, Matrix-2000 , NUDT National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou China	4,981,760	61,444.5	100,678.7	18,482
5		AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) – PRIMERGY CX2550 M4, Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, Infiniband EDR , Fujitsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan	391,680	19,880.0	32,576.6	1,649
6		Piz Daint – Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA Tesla P100 , Cray Inc. Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Switzerland	361,760	19,590.0	25,326.3	2,272
7		Titan – Cray XK7, Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x , Cray Inc. DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States	560,640	17,590.0	27,112.5	8,209
8		Sequoia – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom , IBM DOE/NNSA/LLNL United States	1,572,864	17,173.2	20,132.7	7,890
9		Trinity – Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect , Cray Inc. DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL United States	979,968	14,137.3	43,902.6	3,844
10		Cori – Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect , Cray Inc. DOE/SC/LBNL/NERSC United States	622,336	14,014.7	27,880.7	3,939

 

Rank	Country	System	Cores	Rmax (TFlop/s)	Rpeak (TFlop/s)	Power (kW)
1		Summit – IBM Power System AC922, IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband , IBM DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States	2,282,544	122,300.0	187,659.3	8,806
2		Sunway TaihuLight – Sunway MPP, Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz, Sunway , NRCPC National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi China	10,649,600	93,014.6	125,435.9	15,371
3		Sierra – IBM Power System S922LC, IBM POWER9 22C 3.1GHz, NVIDIA Volta GV100, Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband , IBM DOE/NNSA/LLNL United States	1,572,480	71,610.0	119,193.6	N/A
4		Tianhe-2A – TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692v2 12C 2.2GHz, TH Express-2, Matrix-2000 , NUDT National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou China	4,981,760	61,444.5	100,678.7	18,482
5		SuperMUC – iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz, Infiniband FDR IBM/Lenovo Leibniz Rechenzentrum Germany	311,312	20.4	26.7	N/A
6		AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) – PRIMERGY CX2550 M4, Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, Infiniband EDR , Fujitsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan	391,680	19,880.0	32,576.6	1,649
7		Piz Daint – Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect , NVIDIA Tesla P100 , Cray Inc. Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Switzerland	361,760	19,590.0	25,326.3	2,272
8		Titan – Cray XK7, Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x , Cray Inc. DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States	560,640	17,590.0	27,112.5	8,209
9		Sequoia – BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom , IBM DOE/NNSA/LLNL United States	1,572,864	17,173.2	20,132.7	7,890
10		Trinity – Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect , Cray Inc. DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL United States	979,968	14,137.3	43,902.6	3,844