The Asian nation now has 109 of the world’s fastest supercomputers, up from 37 when the last list was announced in July. The US still has the most supercomputers on the list with 200 HPC systems, but that’s down from 231 in July. That’s the fewest number of US supercomputers since the list began in 1993, according to the latest Top500 listreleased last week.
While Tianhe-2, which reaches 33.86 petaflops per second, ranked No. 1 for the sixth straight time, two new supercomputers joined the Top 10 on the latest list.
The Trinity supercomputer, which reaches 8.1 petaflops per second and is powered by Intel Xeon processors, entered the list at No. 6. It is managed and operated by the Los Alamos and Sandia national Laboratories under their Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale partnership.
Joining the top 10 at No. 8 is the Hazel Hen supercomputer, operated by the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart of the University of Stuttgart in Germany. It reaches 5.6 petaflops per second speeds and is also powered by Intel Xeon processors.
Regionally, Europe also saw a decline in the number of systems on the list, from 141 to 108 systems, while Japan slightly dropped from 40 to 36 systems.