The TOP500 list aims to rank the 500 highest performing supercomputers in the world, but the list has shifted away from focusing only on HPC systems to also represent systems used for other purposes.

We have certainly strayed from the Moore’s Law curve that taught us to expect exponential performance increases. And it is fair to say that we have a very lopsided market – at least if you think those ...

Like Hollywood’s Academy Awards, the Top500 list of supercomputers is dutifully watched by high-performance computing (HPC) participants and observers, even as they vocally doubt its fidelity to ...

On Monday, the Top500 organizers released a new test called High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) that's designed to better predict a supercomputer's real-world utility.

No. 3, Eagle, installed in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, is the highest TOP500 rank a cloud system has ever achieved. In fact, it was two years ago that an Azure system, Voyager-EUS2, was the first cloud ...

Supercomputing power is being concentrated in a smaller number of machines, according to the latest Top500 list of high-performance computers. Keepers of the list are uncertain how to parse that ...

The Top500 list, released twice a year in conjunction with the annual SC conference, is compiled by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

The organizers of the Top500—volunteers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. the University of Tennessee, and supercomputer conference organizer Prometeus—did not speculate as to why ...

Supercomputing 13, which takes place in Denver this week, began with the announcement of the latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest computers and Nvidia's release of the Tesla K40 accelerator.

China accounted for 173 systems on the latest Top500 list, compared with 126 machines in the United States. Japan has been a smaller but still potent contender.

Proving that size isn’t everything, the Top500 List of supercomputers for the first time is looking at power efficiency. With the IT industry increasingly looking at growing electric bills and ...

The next Top500 list, which will have both Linpack and HPCG rankings, will be announced at the Supercomputing Conference, SC2013. This will be held in November in Denver, CO.