The new rankings are in for the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers, as of June 2018. The data was gathered by TOP500, and compared metrics as the systems ran on High Performance Linpack (HPL).
TOP500’s data puts the United States at the top of the list for the first time since November 2012. This is thanks to the IBM-built supercomputer Summit, which now runs at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Summit beat the competition with its 122.3 petaflops performance as it ran on HPL.
Sunway TaihuLight lost its two-year streak as champion, and dropped to the number two slot with its 93 petaflops on HPL. The system was developed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC), and currently resides at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China.
Rounding out the top three is Sierra, another IBM creation that boasts 71.6 petaflops on HPL. It’s located at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
See how the rest of the top 10 rank in the infographic below, provided by Statista.