11-AUG-2000 Brief List of the world's most powerful computing sites

(See List of the world's most powerful computing sites for full list.)

If you have any changes, additions or deletions to make, please mail me at gunter@gapcon.com. No guarantee of accuracy is given, information herein has been collected from many diverse sources. The current minimum performance for inclusion per machine is 127.86 GFLOPS peak.



1) 10948.33 - (06-JUL-2000) [S390] IBM,Poughkeepsie,New York,US 1) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-6144 [-3Q00] 9216 2) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-512 768 3) 15 * IBM RS/6000 S80-450/24 324 4) IBM RS/6000 SP-604e/488 323.91 5) IBM RS/6000 SP-P2SC/309-256 316.42
2) 9069.12 - (06-JUL-2000) [LLNL] Lawrence Livermore National Lab,Livermore,California,US 1) IBM RS/6000 SP-604e/5856 [-4Q00] 3905.95 2) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-2048 [-3Q00] 3075 3) Compaq AlphaServer SC1024/667 1366.02 4) IBM RS/6000 SP-604e/1408 [-4Q00] 939.14 5) 128 * Compaq AlphaServer ES40/667-4 683.01 6) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-8192 [+3Q00,-2Q02] 12288 7) IBM T30/10240 [+2Q01,-3Q03] 30000
3) 5380 - (25-JUL-2000) [HONGO] Uni of Tokyo,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo,Japan 1) U-TOKYO GRAPE-6/112 [-4Q00] 3548 2) Hitachi SR8000/128 1024 3) Hitachi SR2201/1280 384 4) U-TOKYO GRAPE-4/448 270 5) U-TOKYO GRAPE-5/32 154 6) U-TOKYO GRAPE-6/2048 [+4Q00,-4Q01] 73728 7) U-TOKYO GRAPE-6/4096 [+4Q01] 147456
4) 4992 - (10-JUN-1999) [RAYTHEON] Raytheon Systems,Garland,Texas,US 1) SGI 2800/300-8320 [-4Q02] 4992 2) SGI 2800/300-11776 [+4Q02] 7065.6
5) 4833.2 - (07-JUN-2000) [LANL] Los Alamos National Lab,Los Alamos,New Mexico,US 1) SGI 2800/250-6144 [-3Q00] 3072 2) SGI 2800/250-2200 [-3Q00] 1100 3) 256 * Atipa ATserver 6000/500-4 512 4) 140 * DEC AlphaPC/533 149.4 5) Compaq/SGI/Sun T30/10240 [+2Q01,-3Q04] 30000 6) Compaq/IBM/SGI/Sun T100/10240 [+3Q04] 100000
6) 4815.68 - (07-JUN-2000) [NSA] National Security Agency,Fort Meade,Maryland,US 1) Cray T3E-1200 LC1084 1300.8 2) Cray SV1-18/576 [-3Q02] 691.2 3) Cray T3E-1200E LC540 648 4) SGI 2800/250-1152 576 5) Cray T3E-1200 LC396 475.2 6) Paracel FDF3-8T/2730 195 7) Paracel FDF3-8T/2730 195 8) Paracel FDF3-8T/2730 195 9) Paracel FDF3-8T/2730 195 10) 3 * Cray T932/321024 174 11) 4 * Sun Ultra HPC 10000-64336 170.48 12) Cray SV2-18/576 [+3Q02] 1382.4
7) 4659.4 - (11-AUG-2000) [SANDIA] Sandia National Labs,Albuquerque,New Mexico,US 1) Intel ASCI Red/P2-333/9632 3207 2) 800 * Compaq XP1000/500-450*PC/500-16*DS20/500-6*1200/533 1272.4 3) 12 * DEC AlphaServer 8400/625-12 180
8) 2983.2 - (04-AUG-2000) [NAVO] Naval Oceanographic Office,NASA Stennis Space Center,Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi,US 1) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-1336 2004 2) Cray T3E-900 LC1088 979.2
9) 2265.6 - (07-JUN-2000) [CRAY-MN] Cray Supercomputer Center,Eagan,Minnesota,US 1) Cray T3E-1200E LC1536 1843.2 2) SGI 2800/300-384 230.4 3) SGI 2800/250-384 192
10) 1904.4 - (28-JUL-2000) [ARL] US Army Research Lab,Aberdeen Proving Grounds,Maryland,US 1) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/375-512 768 2) SGI 3800/400-768 614 3) 4 * Sun Ultra HPC 10000-64400 204.8 4) SGI 2800/250-240/300-48/200-40 164 5) SGI 2800/300-256 153.6

18) 1186.17 - (08-JUN-2000) [SDSC] San Diego Supercomputer Center,San Diego,California,US 1) IBM RS/6000 SP-POWER3/222-1152 1022.97 2) Cray T3E-600 LC272 163.2 3) NSF Terascale 2 [+2Q02,-2Q04] 5120 4) NSF Terascale 2+ [+2Q04] 25600

29) 888.53 - (30-JUN-2000) [UIUC] National Center for Supercomputer Applications,Uni of Illinois,Urbana- Champaign,Illinois,US 1) SGI 2800/250-768 [-4Q02] 384 2) SGI 2800/200-760 [-4Q01] 304 3) NCSA NT Cluster/550-256/300-128/333-64 200.53 4) SGI 2800/300-256 [+3Q00] 153.6