10 Fastest Supercomputers In The World


#6 SuperMUC

Site: Leibniz Rechenzentrum

Manufacturer: IBM

Country: Germany

Architecture: iDataPlex DX360M4

Processor: Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz

Cores: 147456

Interconnect: Infiniband FDR

Power: 3422.67 kW

Operating System: Linux

Speed: 2.89 petaflops 

Date Created: 2012

The supercomputer is to strengthen the position of Germany's Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Europe by delivering outstanding compute power and integrating it into the European High Performance Computing ecosystem. With the operation of SuperMUC, LRZ will act as an European Centre for Supercomputing and will be Tier-0 centre of PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.

The supercomputer is available to all European researchers to expand the frontiers of science and engineering, as stated in LRZ website.

#5 JUQUEEN

Site: Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)

Manufacturer: IBM

Country: Germany

Architecture: BlueGene/Q

Processor: Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz

Cores: 393216

Power: 1970.00 kW

Memory: 393216 GB

Interconnect: Custom Interconnect

Operating System: Linux

Speed: 4.14 petaflops 

Date Created: 2012

The Jülich Research Centre in Germany is home to the JuQUEEN, which is used for computational science, engineering, climatology, physics, and materials science. The super computer was Ranked No. 8 in June, JUQEEN was upgraded and is now the most powerful system in Europe.