When we hear people talking about the computers, we immediately think about our Mac’s and PC’s, the only real computers most of us had an opportunity to interact with. We wonder how quickly technology is progressing. Computers locate themselves at the core of the majority of businesses, communities, or even businesses. These supercomputers were designed to handle billions of inputs each second.
Do you know how fast is the fastest supercomputer? and how it is measured? The Supercomputers are ranked according to their RMAX, which represents the highest ever computing functionality recorded by the system. Here listing you the top 10 world’s fastest supercomputers.
1. Sunway TaihuLight
This fastest supercomputer is built by Chinese. The Machine homes a total of 40,960 Chinese-designed SW26010 many core 64-bit RISC processors based on the Sunway architecture. The Sunway TaihuLight is nearly 3 times faster than its lead follower Tianhe-2.
Memory: 1,310,720 GB
Storage: 20PB
Performance: 93.014 PFLOPS
2. Tianhe-2
If the Sunway TaihuLight is king of supercomputers, the Tianhe-2 is chief of this military. It had been the world’s fastest system for approximately 3 years (2013-2016). This supercomputer was sponsored by the Chinese government and was built in China’s National Universe Of Defence Technology(NUDT).
Memory: 1,024,000 GB
Storage: 12.4 PB
Performance: 33.862 PFLOPS
3. Piz Daint
The Piz Daint is in the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. The machine has experienced a hardware update from Cary XC30 into a Cray XC40/XC50. After the CHF 40 million upgrade, the Piz Daint transferred from the 8th to the 3rd place in this list. It is also known as the Europe’s fastest supercomputer.
Memory: 340,480 GB
Storage: 6.2 PB
Performance: 19.590 PFLOPS
4. Titan Supercomputer
The Titan is the end result of 3 Decades, US$60 million upgrades to Jaguar supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. It’s a hybrid machine which uses AMD Opteron CPUs together with Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
Memory: 710,144 GB
Storage: 40 PB
Performance: 17.590 PFLOPS.
5. Sequoia
Sequoia is on the top list of IBM supercomputer. This supercomputer was built in US National Nuclear Security Administration. The Sequoia was world number one for a few months replacing the K computer.
Memory: 1,572,864 GB
Performance: 17.173 PFLOPS
6. Cori supercomputer
This supercomputer is constructed for its National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at America. The origin of the PC name comes after the America’s very first female science Nobel laureate Gerty Cori.
Memory: 878,592 GB
Storage: 30 PB
Performance: 14.014 PFLOPS.
7. Oakforest-PACS
The Fujitsu constructed the Oakforest-PACS supercomputer with 8.208 compute nodes. With each having a next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processor. The machine is constructed for the Joint Center for the purpose of Advanced High-Performance Computing. It is controlled by the Middle for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba (CCS) and the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo.
Memory: 919,296 GB
Storage: 26 PB
Performance: 13.554 PFLOPS.
8. K Computer
Fujitsu constructed K computer based on distributed memory architecture, it is ranked number one in the year 2011. The Japanese Ministry of Education, culture, sports, science, and technology sponsored the construction of K.
Memory: 1,410,048 GB
Storage: 11 PB
Performance: 10.510 PFLOPS.
9. Mira
This is an IBM-built super computer for Argonne National Laboratory in America. At the time of construction, it ranked as the third most powerful supercomputer on Earth.
Memory: 768,000 GB
Storage: 24 PB
Performance: 8.586 PFLOPS
10. Trinity Supercomputer
Trinity is a Cray-built machine for the National Nuclear Security Administration. It is located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US.
Memory: 2,000,000 GB
Storage: 82 PB
Performance: 8.100 PFLOPS
Supercomputers have become of symbol of technological superiority and competition among countries. The US is top among all countries. Now country like China have come up very strong to build the best supercomputer in the world with the fastest computer processor. The supercomputer is the best device to solve current computational problems. Now, China and US have put plans together to design the Exascale Supercomputers.
