TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world

A  typical computer  or  laptop  can help you play games, entertain yourself, handle work but cannot handle millions of data. To do that, humans have invented supercomputers with increasing speed and higher safety. The following article will take a look at the 10 fastest supercomputers available today. Please find out.

1 .  Fugaku

Fugaku is a computer developed by Fujitsu Technology Company and Riken Scientific Research Institute (R-CCS) and installed in Kobe, Japan.

The Fugaku supercomputer is built on  the latest generation ARM architecture  , performing more than  415 million billion computations per second ,  2 or 8 times  faster than the Summit system - a supercomputer made by all IBM of the United States. manufacturer was once topped the Top 500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world. Fugaku is being used to study COVID-19 including diagnosis, therapy, and simulation of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  Japan .
2. Speed:  442 , 010  petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  537 , 212  petaflop .

2 .  Summit

In second place is the Summit supercomputer developed by IBM corporation   in the US. As of November 2019, Summit is the fastest supercomputer in the world, but the top spot has been taken away by Fugaku in 2020.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 1

Summit is commissioned to do civilian science research and is based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. This supercomputer will be used for various fields such as cosmology, medicine, and climate science.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  USA .
2. Speed:  148 , 600  petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  200 , 795  petaflops .

3 .  Sierra

Sierra is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 2

Sierra used to simulate nuclear weapons, climate change prediction, search for cancer treatments, . Both Summit and Sierra are using IBM technologies and microprocessors  IBM Power9  with  Nvidia Tesla V100 accelerated GPU chips .

Information

1. Country of ownership:  USA .
2. Speed:  94 , 640  petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  125 , 712  petaflop .

4 .  Sunway TaihuLight

Sunway TaihuLight is a Chinese supercomputer, ranked in the Top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world from June 2016 to June 2018.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 3

Sunway TaihuLight uses a total of  40 . 960  processors  SW26010 64-bit RISC , which is located at the Center national supercomputer Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, China.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  China .
2. Speed:  93 , 015  petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  125 , 436 petaflop .

5 .  Selene

Selene is a supercomputer assembled by  Nvidia  within a month in the US. Selene investigates ways to block Covid-19, computationally solving problems around protein binding and quantum chemistry.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 4

Selene works on the DGX SuperPOD architecture   with the integration of artificial intelligence and big data to handle huge workloads. Each   of Selene's 280 nodes is a   standardized DGX pod containing  8 Nvidia A100 GPUs  and  2 AMD Epyc CPUs .

Information

1. Country of ownership:  USA .
2. Speed:  63 , 460 petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  79 , 215 petaflops .

6 .  Tianhe-2A

Tianhe-2A or also known as  MilkyWay-2A  of China.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 5

Tianhe-2A is assembled in the city of Guangzhou, funded by the Chinese government with a mission to control traffic signals, forecast earthquakes and other applications. Tianhe-2A is equipped with  3 , 120 , 000 cores  including  Intel Xeon E5 - 2692 ,  Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P  and  Galaxy FT - 1500 .

Information

1. Country of ownership:  China .
2. Speed:  61 , 445 petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  100 , 679 petaflops .

7 .  JUWELS Booster Module

The JUWELS Booster Module is the newest candidate on the list and installed at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) in Germany.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 6

JUWELS is equipped with  AMD processor  and  NVIDIA GPU  with many powerful features.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  Germany .
2. Speed:  44 , 120 petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  70 , 980 petaflops .

8 .  HPC5

Eighth on the list is the HPC5 supercomputer, installed by Eni SpA and Eni's Green Data Center in Italy.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 7

HPC5's mission is to solve extremely complex internal algorithms for processing data underground. The HPC5 has a top processing power of  70 petaflops . That means  70 million billion  calculations are done in  1 second . HPC5 owns up to 4 CPU sockets, more than 3,400 computer processors and 10,000 graphics cards  that allow the creation of three-dimensional models of the ground at a depth of  10  -  15  km , with a surface area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers. and a resolution of several tens of meters.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  Italy .
2. Speed:  35 , 450  petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  51 , 721 petaflop .

9 . Frontera

Frontera is located at the Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in 2020 in Austin, USA.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 8

Frontera is a Dell C6420  system  equipped with  448 , 448  Intel Platinum Xeon cores , designed to study most scientific fields, related to drug invention, destroying emerging viruses, quantum mechanics. and physics about black holes.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  USA .
2. Speed:  23 , 516 petaflop .
3. Peak performance:  38 , 746 petaflop .

10 .  Dammam-7

Dammam-7 is installed in Saudi Arabia with great support from the Saudi Aramco company.

TOP 10 supercomputers with fastest processing speed in the world Picture 9

The Dammam-7 uses Intel Gold Xeon CPU systems  , HPE Cray CS-Storm CPUs ,  506 TB of memory   and  NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs  with the task of improving the performance of the Saudi Aramco company.

Information

1. Country of ownership:  Saudi Arabia .
2. Speed:  22 , 4 petaflops .
3. Peak performance:  44 , 424 petaflops .

Hopefully with the above information, you can understand more about the most modern supercomputers in the world today. Thank you for watching and see you in the following articles.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 01 April 2021