USA gains ground in supercomputer world rankings

The USA has gained ground in the world supercomputer rankings, with 116 supercomputers listed among the top 500 most powerful in the world. This is up from 109 in November 2018.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

USA gains ground in supercomputer world rankings

The USA has gained ground in the world supercomputer rankings, with 116 supercomputers listed among the top 500 most powerful in the world. This is up from 109 in November 2018.

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How are Australia and New Zealand this time?

How are the Google supercomputer centres this time?

How is the NSA doing? That’d be in Maryland, USA. They would have to have something big in order to spy on the world’s internet and phone traffic, complete with facial recognition.

I see Switzerland is up at number 6. It’s doing very well for such a small country. It was doing well last time, too. I wonder if that’s the primary computer for CERN?

South Korea at number 15.

Taiwan at number 23.

Saudi Arabia at number 36.

Canada has fallen to number 69.

Brazil at number 142.

Australia at number 173. Right next to Poland. And 182. And 454 for western australia. Well, at least we’re in the top 200

I’m surprised by the number of Lenovo supercomputers, i didn’t know they made anything other than crap tablets. What operating system do Lenovo supercomputers use?

Ireland at number 223.

Singapore at number 238.

South Africa at number 496.

And New Zealand has fallen off the bottom of the table. Oh dear.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

USA gains ground in supercomputer world rankings

The USA has gained ground in the world supercomputer rankings, with 116 supercomputers listed among the top 500 most powerful in the world. This is up from 109 in November 2018.

more…

How are Australia and New Zealand this time?

How are the Google supercomputer centres this time?

How is the NSA doing? That’d be in Maryland, USA. They would have to have something big in order to spy on the world’s internet and phone traffic, complete with facial recognition.

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Australia at number 173. Right next to Poland. And 182. And 454 for western australia. Well, at least we’re in the top 200

I’m surprised by the number of Lenovo supercomputers, i didn’t know they made anything other than crap tablets. What operating system do Lenovo supercomputers use?

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> I’m surprised by the number of Lenovo supercomputers, i didn’t know they made anything other than crap tablets. What operating system do Lenovo supercomputers use?

Lenovo Attains Status As Largest Global Provider of Top 500 Supercomputers

“117 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers included in the TOP500 are Lenovo installations, meaning nearly one out of every four systems on the prestigious list is a Lenovo solution.”

Lenovo is Intel? Looks like it. #9 on the list, and the most powerful in Germany, is Lenovo with “Intel Xeon Platinum 8174 24C 3.1GHz interconnected using Intel Omni-Path.

From the Lenovo website: “High performance computing (HPC) solutions, powered by the Intel Xeon Platinum processor.” Also from the Lenovo website “Intel Core i7 vs. Intel Xeon”.

For workstations, Lenovo uses “Operating System. Windows 10 Pro 64”

“Popular operating systems and hypervisors tested for compatibility — Windows, Linux, VMware”

For high performance computing software, Lenovo comes with “IBM Platform”. All Lenovo HPC comes with IBM software.

More on Intel Xeon. It manages to grab, for starters, # 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 of the top ten. Anyone who hacks it is going to have a field day.

> How are the Google supercomputer centres this time?

Still not a hint that Google even owns a computer. Last list I calculated that Google had to have at least one supercomputer in the top three, but no more than a whisper of it then or now.

From the web You Can Now Rent an Entire AI Supercomputer from Google Cloud

“According to the company, which made the announcement Tuesday at Google IO, a single TPU v3 Pod has more than 100 petaFLOPs of computing power. If true, the performance would make it comparable to the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2A in Guangzhou, China, whose peak theoretical performance is just north of 100 petaFLOPS.”

Google computers damn well ought to be in the top ten of the supercomputer world rankings.

> How is the NSA doing? That’d be in Maryland, USA. They would have to have something big in order to spy on the world’s internet and phone traffic, complete with facial recognition.

http://mil-embedded.com/4755-how-nsa-processes-all-that-intelligence-data/

“In 1996, NSA moved over 150 of the largest and fastest supercomputers in the world into the Tordella Supercomputer Facility at Fort Meade, Maryland. NSA does not count the number of monster supercomputers they have. They measure them by “acres.” They had 5 1/2 acres of them in 70s, so they must have much more than that today.”

“NSA has their own semiconductor fab on their campus at Ft Meade. They can build their own processors and crypto chips based on their success with certain software algorithms that have been proven on their own supercomputers. They can take their mature software algorithms, put them into hardware, and make them run many times faster.”

Shit, NSA’s best could be bigger even than number 1 on the top 500 list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

The NSA operates a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. There is 9,000 m2 of data center space. What does that translate to in speed … ah wait … 65 Megawatts of electric power. We can compare that with computers on the Top 500.

The world’s fastest computer on the Top 500 list uses 10 Megawatts. No computer on the Top 500 list uses more than 18 Megawatts.

Yep. The NSA computer is definitely faster than any computer on the top 500 list.

Given the glaring omissions, can we trust the Top 500 list at all?

I mean, even Australia’s “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cyber_Security_Centre”|:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cyber_Security_Centre
may be way up there in computing size, considering its link into the USA’s five eyes program. The existence of the five eyes Agreement was discovered by the Australian government during the 1973 Murphy raids on the headquarters of ASIO, but was not made public until 2005.

Looks like some companies and some government agencies are not making their computer performances public.

I wonder how this can be addressed in any way?

You cannot force companies to disclose that sort of information.

And Yes, It does effect the accuracy of the top 500 list.