MANNHEIM, Germany, June 22 (UPI) -- The world's fastest supercomputer remains a system jointly developed by IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy, an industry group said Wednesday.
The TOP500 list, compiled annually by Hans Meuer of Germany's University of Mannheim, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, found that the BlueGene/L System remained the fastest computer in the world. Moreover, they reported that with recent improvements, the system "is expected to remain the number one supercomputer in the world for the next few editions of the TOP500 list." The computer system jointly developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration is at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.
In second place was another IBM BlueGene system that has the "same architecture but smaller in size," the group said in a press release. It was recently installed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y.
The Columbia system built by SGI found at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., came in third, while the earth simulator built by Japan's NEC came in fourth place.
