Reno (NV) – The IBM BlueGene/L  supercomputer is still the best in the world according to the latest Top 500 Supercomputers list.  The list shows the recently updated Lawrence Livermore computer to have a massive 478 teraflops, that’s 478 trillion operations a second.  Coming in the number two spot is another IBM computer at a German research center with a “mere” 167 teraflops of power.

As you can guess, IBM made 46% of all the supercomputers in the list while HP came in second place with 33%.  64% of the computers used Intel processors while AMD made up 16%.

The majority of the supercomputers were located in the United States with the United Kingdom coming in second.  The US had 283 computers or 56.6% of the list while the UK had 48 supercomputers or 9.6%.  If you count operations per second, instead of pure numbers, then Japan comes easily comes in second place behind the United States.

The top 500 list is released twice a year in conjunction with the Supercomputing Conference in Reno Nevada.  You can view the list here.

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