Earlier I mentioned the list of supercomputer installations that Gunter Ahrendt maintains and I included a few (dated) excerpts. Well, tonight I found a new version posted. I'm only including the top handful of sites. Not reported are installations in non-U.S. intelligence agencies, such as Chobetsu, SDECE, Mossad, BND, etc. They probably don't have Crays, Connection Machines, or Paragons. I'll also edit the intro material a bit. The sites are ranked in order of what I'd call "Cray equivalents," where the Cray Y-MP/1 is rated at 1. For example, the top-ranked site has the estimated equivalent of 380 Cray Y-MP/1s. --Tim May From: gunter@yarrow.wt.uwa.edu.au (Gunter Ahrendt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: JUL-1994 List of the world's most powerful computing sites Date: 3 Jul 94 01:37:07 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <gunter.773199427@yarrow> 03-JUL-1994 List of the world's most powerful computing sites ============================================================= (available by fingering me, joining my mailing list or in comp.sys.super) .... Ratings are ratios to a Cray Y-MP/1 based on NASA NPB BT Size A benchmark reports. Figures prefixed '~' denote approximations usually based on comparable programs, figures suffixed '?' denote relative guesses based on Intel iPSC/860 peak Gflops ratios. The current minimum performance for inclusion is a benchmarked rating of 4 BT, or 10.56 Gflops peak for unbenchmarked systems. ... 1) 380.82 - (27-JUN-1994) [NAL] National Aerospace Lab,Chofu-shi,Tokyo,Japan, nahirose@asuka.aerospace-lab.go.jp 1) NAL NWT 2/140 ~357 (5.1 @ 2 cpus) 2) Intel Paragon-336 18.38 (7 @ 128 cpus) 3) Fujitsu VP2600/10 ~ 5.44 2) 196.1 - (APR-1994) [CSS] Central Security Service,National Security Agency Headquarters,Fort George G Meade,Maryland,US,postmaster@dockmaster.ncsc.mil 1) TMC CM-5/512 44.8 (2.8 @ 32 cpus) 2) Cray C916-1024 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 3) Cray C916-1024 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 4) Cray C916-1024 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 5) Cray Y-MP/8E-256 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 6) Cray Y-MP/8E-256 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 7) Cray Y-MP/8E-256 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 8) Cray Y-MP/8E-256 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 9) Cray M98-4096 ~ 7.01 10) Cray 3/2-64 [-4Q96] 5.73? 11) NSA SMPP-2/2M [+4Q96] 7407.05? 3) 146.41 - (10-JUN-1994) [LANL] Los Alamos National Labs,Los Alamos,New Mexico,US,iaa@lanl.gov 1) TMC CM-5/1056-32 [-4Q94] 92.4 (2.8 @ 32 cpus) 2) Cray T3D SC128-8/3-64 15 (12 @ 128 cpus + 1 * 3 cpus) 3) Cray Y-MP/8-128 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 4) Cray Y-MP/8-128 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 5) Cray Y-MP/8-64 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 6) Cray Y-MP/8-32 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 7) Cray M98-2048 ~ 7.01 8) TMC CM-5/1056-128 [+4Q94] 92.4 (2.8 @ 32 cpus) 4) 142.08 - (10-JUN-1994) [NSA] National Security Agency,Dallas,Texas,US,postmaster@dockmaster.ncsc.mil 1) Cray C916-512 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 2) Cray C916-512 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 3) Cray C916-512 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 4) Cray C916-512 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 5) Cray C916-1024 [+2Q95] 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 6) Cray C916-1024 [+2Q95] 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 7) Cray C916-1024 [+2Q95] 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 8) Cray C916-512 [+2Q95] 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 5) 112.97 - (16-JUN-1994) [CRI] Cray Research Computer Network,Eagan,Minnesota,US,root@cray.com 1) Cray C916-256 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 2) Cray T3D 256 24 (12 @ 128 cpus) 3) Cray Y-MP/8E-128 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 4) Cray Y-MP/8D-128 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 5) Cray Y-MP/8D-64 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 6) Cray Y-MP/8D-32 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 7) Cray M98-4096 ~ 7.01 8) Cray Y-MP8I/6-64 6 = 1 * 6 cpus 9) Cray C92A-128 4.44 = 2.22 * 2 cpus 10) Cray Y-MP/4E-64 4 = 1 * 4 cpus 11) Cray T91 [+1Q95] 4.44? 12) Cray T3D 1024A [+4Q96] 204.8 ? 13) Cray T932 [+4Q96] 142.08? 14) Cray T3D 1024B [+4Q99] 640 ? 6) 106 - (20-MAY-1994) [SANDIA] Sandia National Labs,Albuquerque,New Mexico,US,arbreck@sandia.gov 1) Intel Paragon-1840 98 (7 @ 128 cpus) 2) Cray Y-MP/8-64 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 7) 104.38 - (29-JUN-1994) [MSCI] Minnesota Supercomputer Center,Minneapolis,Minnesota,US,consult@msc.edu 1) TMC CM-5/896VU 78.4 (2.8 @ 32 cpus) 2) Cray C916/9-512 19.98 = 2.22 * 9 cpus 3) Cray T3D 64 [-4Q94] 6 4) Cray T3D 128 [+4Q94] 12 8) 98.4 - (02-JUN-1994) [ATP] Angstrom Technology Partnership,Tsukuba,Japan,sato@jrcat.or.jp 1) Fujitsu VPP500/32 76.8 (4.8 @ 2 cpus) 2) TMC CM-5E/128 21.6 (5.4 @ 32 cpus) 9) 83.52 - (17-JUN-1994) [PSC] Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center,Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,US, remarks@psc.edu 1) Cray T3D 512 48 (12 @ 128 cpus) 2) Cray C916-512 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 10) 82.4 - (10-JUN-1994) [CALTECH] Caltech,Pasadena,California,US,goss@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu 1) Intel Paragon-555 30.35 (7 @ 128 cpus) 2) Intel Touchstone Delta-513 ~28.05 (7 @ 128 cpus) 3) Cray T3D 256 24 (12 @ 128 cpus) 11) 81.55 - (21-JUN-1994) [LLNL] Lawrence Livermore National Labs,Livermore,California,US, seager@llnl.gov 1) Cray C916-256 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 2) Meiko CS-2/256-512VU [-4Q96] ~ 24 (1.5 @ 16 cpus) 3) Cray Y-MP/8-128 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 4) Cray Y-MP/8-64 8 = 1 * 8 cpus 5) Cray 2S/8-128 6.03? 6) Cray T3D SC128-8/3-64 [+3Q94] 15 (12 @ 128+1 * 3 cpus) 7) Meiko CS-2/1280-2560VU [+4Q96] ~120 (1.5 @ 16 cpus) 12) 77.31 - (07-APR-1994) [TSUKUBA] Uni of Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan,root@ume.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp 1) Fujitsu VPP500/30 72 (4.8 @ 2 cpus) 2) Tsukuba QCDPAX-480 5.31? 3) Tsukuba CP-PACS/1024 [+3Q96] 113.68? 13) 75.44 - (25-JUN-1994) [NAS] NAS,NASA Ames Research Center,Mountain View,California,US, jet@nas.nasa.gov 1) Cray C916-1024 35.52 = 2.22 * 16 cpus 2) Cray C98-128 17.76 = 2.22 * 8 cpus 3) TMC CM-5/128VU-32/256 11.2 (2.8 @ 32 cpus) 4) Intel Paragon-204 11.16 (7 @ 128 cpus) 5) IBM 9076 SP2/160 [+3Q94] ~63.8 (3.19 @ 8 cpus)