Two months ago, in June, the Top500 list was published. Top500 is a project for compiling ratings and descriptions of the 500 most powerful socially known computing systems in the world. The current list of supercomputers is published twice a year (June / November). The project is just celebrating its anniversary (25 years) and, which is good news, the list has been updated compared to the previous ones, it includes 133 new systems, and the first places are occupied by new favorites.

It seems that they accumulated all the world's digatal power. Meet the world's top 10 fastest supercomputers in 2018. The entire rating of the
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1. Summit - IBM (USA)
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The computing complex was developed by IBM and the Oak Ridge Laboratory (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL), which is part of the US Department of Energy. The stated performance of the world leader at 200 petaflops, which is equal to 200 thousand trillion calculations per second. For comparison: the performance of the Chinese supercomputer Sunway TaihuLighto - 93 petaflops.
System characteristics:
- IBM Power System AC922
- IBM POWER9 22C 3.07GHz
- NVIDIA Volta GV100,
- Dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
- 2.28 million cores
- 122.3 petaflops

Summit - IBM consists of 4608 servers, the amount of RAM reaches 10 Pbytes, the machine is located on an area equal to two tennis courts.
2. Sunway TaihuLight - NCRPC (China)

System characteristics:
- Sunway MPP
- Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz
- 10.65 million cores
- 93 petaflops
3. Sierra - IBM (USA)

System characteristics:
- IBM Power System S922LC
- IBM POWER9 22C 3.1GHz
- NVIDIA Volta GV100,
- Dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
- 1.57 million cores
- 71.6 petaflops
4. Tianhe - 2A - NUDT (China)

Characteristics of the Chinese supersystem: TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692v2 12C 2.2GHz, TH Express-2, Matrix-2000, 4.98 million cores, 61.46 petaflops.
5. AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure - Fujitsu (Japan)

Features: PRIMERGY CX2550 M4, Xeon Gold 6148 20C 2.4GHz, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2, Infiniband EDR, 392,000 cores, 19.88 petaflops.
6. Piz Daint - Cray (Switzerland)

Features: Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect, NVIDIA Tesla P100, 362,000 cores, 19.59 petaflops.
7. Titan - Cray (US)

Features: Cray XK7, Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
560,640 cores, 17.59 petaflops.
8. Sequoia - IBM (USA)

Features: BlueGene / Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom interconnect, 1.57 million cores, 17.2 petaflops.
9. Trinity - Cray (US)

Features: Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect, 980,000 cores, 14.1 petaflops.
10. Cori - Cray (US)

Features: Cray XC40, Intel Xeon Phi 7250 68C 1.4GHz, Aries interconnect, 622,000 cores, 14 petaflops.
What we observe:
- The USA is again in the first place in the Top500 rating (there was no American system in the top since 2012)
- China still leads in the number of supercomputers in the Top500 list.
- 202 supersystems belong to China, 104 - the USA, 36 - to Japan, 22 - Great Britain, 21 - Germany, 18 - France.
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