The Top500 ranking of the fastest supercomputers celebrates its 60th edition this November. There is no new leader, but with Leonardo from Italy another system from Europe has reached the top 10.
Leonardo climbed into the top 10 ein
The US system Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer in the world according to the Top500 ranking list with 1,102 PetaFLOPS or 1.1 ExaFLOPS of maximum computing power in the Linpack benchmark.
The only newcomer in the top 10 is the Leonardo system from Italy, which with 174.7 PetaFLOPS pushed the US computer Summit from fourth place. The Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer is equipped with an Ice Lake-SP generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8358, each with 32 cores at 2.6 GHz. However, the lion's share of the computing power is provided by the Nvidia A100 coprocessors in the SXM variant with 40 GB of memory (HBM2). Because of the total of 1,463,616 “cores”, 1,374,912 are attributable to the A100 modules.
Leonardo is at CINECA data center in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the supercomputers of the EuroHPC project.
In addition to the “Booster Module” with the above properties, a “Data Centric Module” is also planned for Leonardo, which uses Intel's late Sapphire Rapids processors.
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 2 (2) Fugaku Japan 442.01 PetaFLOPS Fujitsu A64FX (48C, 2.2GHz) June 2020 3 (3) LUMI Finland 309.10 PetaFLOPS AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 4 (-) Leonardo Italy 174.70 PetaFLOPS Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 (32C, 2.6 GHz)
Nvidia A100 November 2022 5 (4) Summit USA 148.60 PetaFLOPS IBM Power9 (22C, 3.07 GHz)
Nvidia Volta GV100 June 2018 6 (5) Sierra USA 94.64 PetaFLOPS IBM Power9 (22C, 3.1 GHz)
Nvidia Volta GV100 June 2018 7 (6) Sunway TaihuLight China 93.01 PetaFLOPS Sunway SW26010 (260C, 1.45GHz) June 2016 8 (7) Mother of Pearl USA 70.87 PetaFLOPS AMD Epyc 7763 (64C, 2.45GHz)< br>Nvidia A100 June 2021 9 (8) Selene USA 63.46 PetaFLOPS AMD Epyc 7742 (64C, 2.25 GHz)
Nvidia A100 June 2020 10 (9) Tianhe-2A China 61.44 PetaFLOPS Intel Xeon E5- 2692v2 (12C, 2.2 GHz) June 2013 Changes from last list highlighted in bold
LUMI is now double so fast
Although still in 3rd place, LUMI from Finland got a huge upgrade. The size of the system with AMD Epyc Milan and AMD Instinct MI250X has simply been doubled and so it also delivers twice the computing power of now 309.1 PetaFLOPS (previously 151.9 PFLOPS). The computing power is sufficient to continue to call itself the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
JUWELS remains Germany's fastest
The JUWELS Booster Module is in twelfth place behind the French Adastra. The system with AMD Epyc and Nvidia A100 at the Research Center Jülich is currently the fastest in Germany and the third fastest in Europe with 44.12 PetaFLOPS.
But next year, work will start on a much faster system at the same location. With JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer is to be built on the campus of the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Henri leads the Green500 with Nvidia Hopper
Six of the ten most efficient systems use the combination of AMD Epyc Milan and AMD Instinct MI250X. But the most efficient system in terms of GigaFLOPS per watt is now Henri from the USA, which combines Intel's 32-core Xeon Platinum 8362 with Nvidia's H100-type accelerator cards. This results in 65.09 GFLOPS/Watt, which is a clear lead over the previous leader Frontier TDS with 62.68 GFLOPS/Watt.
Nvidia H100 November 2022 2 (32) Frontier TDS USA 62.68 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 3 (11) Adastra France 58.02 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0 GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 4 (15) Setonix Australia 56.98 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0 GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X November 2022 5 (68) Dardel GPU Sweden 56.49 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0 GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X November 2022 6 (1) Frontier USA 52.23 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0 GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 7 (3) LUMI Finland 51.38 GFLOPS/Watt AMD Epyc 3rd Gen (64C, 2.0GHz)
AMD Instinct MI250X June 2022 8 (159) ATOS THX.A.B. France 41.41 GFLOPS/Watt Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 (32C, 2.6 GHz)
Nvidia A100 June 2022 9 (359) MN-3 Japan 40.90 GFLOPS/Watt Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (24C, 2.4 GHz) June 2020 10 (331) Champollion France 38.55 GFLOPs/Watt AMD Epyc 7763 (64C, 2.45 GHz)
Nvidia A100 June 2022
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