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How powerful is the world's top 5 supercomputer? A picture to show you clearly. On the latest supercomputing Top500 list, China listed 174 units, accounting for 34.6%, still ranking first in the world.
The rapid development of the information world is inseparable from the support of computing power, and the supercomputer is an important means to seize the high ground in the information world, and it is also an important embodiment of a country's comprehensive strength.
Recently, visualcapitalist, a website known for its visualization, put the world's top supercomputing into an infographic based on the global supercomputing "Top 500" ranking list.
The level of computing power and the strength of performance are clear at a glance.
This chart is ranked based on the latest supercomputer power ranking released in November 2021.
Fugaku(Japan)
In March 2021, Fugaku was completed in Japan. Fugaku is also the world's largest supercomputer. Its application scope is very extensive, including meteorological simulation, new drug research and development, and quantum physics research.
Its name derives from the japanese nickname of Mt. Fuji, Fugaku, which symbolizes the unrivalled capabilities and status of this supercomputer. At present, the hash rate reaches 537212 teraflops, ranking first in the world, more than the sum of the supercomputers ranked 2-5 on the list.
Summit (USA)
Summit is the most powerful supercomputer in the United States, deployed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. With the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, it was jointly built by IBM, NVIDIA, and Mailos. It is mainly used for research in the fields of energy, health and artificial intelligence.
Teraflops, which hash rate of 200795, ranks second in the world.
Sierra (USA)
The Sirra, code-named ATS-2, is a supercomputer built by IBM for lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, managed by the National Nuclear Safety Administration, and uses nearly the same architecture as Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Teraflops, which has a computing power of 125712, ranks third in the world.
"The Light of Taihu Lake" (China)
"Sunway Taihu Light" is currently the largest and top supercomputer in China. It is also able to rank fourth in the world rankings. The computing power of "Sunway Taihu Light" can reach 125436 teraflops.
At present, the hash rate ranks fourth in the world.
Perlmutter (USA)
Also known as THE NERSC-9, it is a machine that is scheduled to be sent to the National Center for Energy Research and Scientific Computing under the U.S. Department of Energy in late 2020 as Cori's next-generation supercomputer.
Perlmutter was built by Cray and uses a Zen3-based AMD Epyc CPU, as well as a new generation of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. It is mainly used in nuclear fusion simulation, climate prediction, materials research, biological research and other fields.
With a hash rate of 93,750 teraflops, it ranks fifth in the world.
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In addition, in order to visually compare, the hash rate of several consumer-grade computing devices is also given in the figure.
For example, Nvidia's Titan RTX graphics card, which is currently the most powerful graphics card for personal computers, has a computing power of 120 teraflops. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 hash rate is 36 teraflops.
Home game console Xbox Series X with 12teraflops. Tesla's Model S has a hash rate of 10teraflops.
The latest supercomputing Top 500: the number of China is the first, and the hash rate is the first in the United States
In november 2021, the number of supercomputers from China and the United States continues to occupy the top spot, and the data has not changed much from before.
In this edition of the list, the number of supercomputers in China has dropped from 186 to 173, and the number of machines in the United States has increased from 123 to 150. The total number of supercomputers in these two countries accounts for nearly two-thirds of the TOP500 supercomputers.
China remains at the top of the list with 34.6 percent, the United States is second with 29.8 percent, and Japan is third with 6.4 percent.
In terms of hash rate ranking, due to the obvious advantage of the first-ranked Japanese super-computing "Fugaku", Japan's hashrate share rose sharply to 20.7%, surpassing China and ranking second. China ranked third with 17.5% of hash rate. The United States ranked first with 32.5% of hash rate.
Since it first topped the charts in June 2020, Japanese supercomputer Fugaku has been firmly at the top of the list, with a clear hash rate advantage.
In this edition of the ranking, Fugaku's HPL benchmark score is 442 Pflop/s, which is 2 times higher than the performance of the second-ranked Summit.
Located at riken Computing Science Center (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, Fugaku was jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu and uses Fujitsu's custom ARM A64FX processor.
In single-precision rankings, often used in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, Fugaku has peak performance above 1000 PFlop/s (1 Eflop/s). As a result, Fugaku is sometimes referred to as the first "E-class supercomputer".
It has been previously reported that several Chinese supercomputers have achieved E-level performance, but none of them have submitted performance test results to the TOP500 list.
According to previous public reports, China has been laying out in the field of E-level supercomputing for a long time. At present, the prototype system of three different technical routes of "Shenwei" E-class prototype, "Tianhe-3" E-class prototype and Shuguang E-class prototype has been delivered.
Currently, the top 500 list hash rate rankings the top ten as follows:
On this Top500 list, two Chinese supercomputers entered the top ten.
"Shenwei Taihu Light" ranked fourth. Developed by the National Center for Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) in China and located at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, it has a theoretical peak performance of 125.4 Pflop/s and an actual maximum hash rate of 93 Pflop/s.
Tianhe-2 A (Galaxy-2 A), developed by the National University of Defense Technology of China (NUDT) and deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, has a theoretical peak performance of 100.7 Pflop/s and an actual maximum hash rate of 61.4 Pflop/s, ranking seventh.
Resources:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-power-of-the-worlds-supercomputers/
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2021/11/
https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/26/china-has-already-reached-exascale-on-two-separate-systems/%E2%80%8B