Neowin News Feed for: Top500

AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer remains top dog and boosts performance

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:00:01 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto its massive lead in the TOP500 supercomputing list. It still remains the only exascale supercomputer and has extended its lead. Read more...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier remains world's top supercomputer

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:16:01 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto the top spot in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. The systems in second and third place remain far behind Frontier. Read more...

TOP500: Fugaku supercomputer holds onto the top spot

Paul Hill — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:16:01 +0000

TOP500 has released the latest list of top supercomputers. There is one new entry on the list and Fugaku has managed to hold its lead. We are still waiting on exascale computers to hit the list. Read more...

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer comes first in TOP500 rankings

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:46:01 +0000

Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency. Read more...

TOP500 November 2018 list released, U.S.' Summit number one

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:02:02 +0000

The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance. Read more...

EU wants world's fastest supercomputer by 2023 for €1B

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:31:26 +0000

The European Union is planning to launch a €1 billion project to develop an exascale supercomputer by 2023. The EU hopes the machine will be the world's fastest but it faces a challenge from China. Read more...

China has record number of supercomputers in TOP500

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:06:01 +0000

The TOP500 list for November has been released and China, as ever, is doing very well. The U.S., on the other hand, has gotten a bit of a battering with losses on multiple fronts, to China and Japan. Read more...

China plans new supercomputer for June 2018

Paul Hill — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 09:46:01 +0000

China has announced that its first exascale supercomputer, which will be eight times faster than the Sunway TaihuLight, will be ready by June 2018. China came first place in the 2017 TOP500 list. Read more...

China maintains top places on TOP500 supercomputer rankings, US pushed to fourth

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:46:01 +0000

China's TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 supercomputers have maintained their number one and two spots on the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. The US has been pushed out of the top three after two decades. Read more...

Japan plans to leap over China in supercomputer rankings

Paul Hill — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 07:06:01 +0000

Japan is reportedly working on a new supercomputer which it hopes will knock China off its number one spot in the TOP500 ranking list. The finished computer will help advance artificial intelligence. Read more...

China leads TOP500 supercomputer list with Sunway TaihuLight

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:28:02 +0000

China has topped the TOP500 supercomputer list with a new computer called Sunway TaihuLight. The TaihuLight is capable of 93 petaflops compared to the previous number one, which scored 33 petaflops. Read more...