Table 1.
Fastest academic computer systems as ranked in the November’s Top500 lists, http://www.top500.org. Rank represents the position of the fastest academic system in the Top500 list per year. The systems are ranked in terms of Rmax, which is an estimate of the maximum performance of a computer measured using a freely available implementation of the High Performance Computing LINPACK Benchmark
| Year | Rank | Institution | Computer | Rmax (GFlops/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 4 | NCSA | Thinking Machines Corporation, CM-5/512 | 30·4 |
| 1994 | 6 | University of Tsukuba | Fujitsu, VPP500/30 | 39·8 |
| 1995 | 6 | Cornell Theory Center | IBM, SP2/512 | 88·4 |
| 1996 | 1 | Center for Computational Science University of Tsukuba | Hitachi, CP-PACS/2048 | 368·2 |
| 1997 | 4 | Center for Computational Science University of Tsukuba | Hitachi CP-PACS/2048 | 368·2 |
| 1998 | 7 | CSAR at the University of Manchester | Cray Inc., T3E1200 | 509 |
| 1999 | 5 | University of Tokyo | Hitachi, SR8000/128 | 873 |
| 2000 | 7 | Leibniz Rechenzentrum | Hitachi, SR8000-F1/112 | 1035 |
| 2001 | 2 | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center | Hewlett-Packard, AlphaServer SC45 1 GHz | 4059 |
| 2002 | 6 | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center | Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer SC45, 1 GHz | 4463 |
| 2003 | 3 | Virginia Tech | Self-made 1100 Dual 2·0 GHz Apple G5/Mellanox Infiniband 4X/Cisco GigE | 10 280 |
| 2004 | 4 | Barcelona Supercomputing Center | IBM BladeCenter JS20 (PowerPC970 2·2 GHz) | 20 530 |
| 2005 | 8 | Barcelona Supercomputing Center | IBM JS20 Cluster, PPC 970, 2·2 GHz, Myrinet | 27 910 |
| 2006 | 5 | Barcelona Supercomputing Center | IBM BladeCenter JS21 Cluster, PPC 970, 2·3 GHz, Myrinet | 62 630 |
| 2007 | 10 | Stony Brook/BNL, New York Center for Computational Sciences | IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution | 82 161 |
| 2008 | 6 | Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Texas | Sun Microsystems SunBlade r6420, Opteron QC 233 GHz, Infiniband | 433 200 |
| 2009 | 3 | National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee | Cray Inc. Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2·6 GHz | 831 700 |