Tom Merritt shares this year’s TOP500 ranking of the best supercomputers.
Twice a year since 1993, TOP500 has ranked the world’s supercomputers, and it’s been a long time since we’ve reviewed those rankings. Let’s take a look at the top 5 supercomputers.
Top 5 supercomputers of 2022
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore Labs is still with you with its Sierra system. It uses two POWER9 CPUs and four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs in each of its 4,320 nodes. It can reach 94.6 petaflops.
IBM Summit
IBM’s Summit in Tennessee brought the difficulty of using two 22-core POWER9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. The summit is taking place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It can reach 148.8 petaflops.
LUMI
The LUMI, built by HPE Cray EX in Finland, has a performance of 151.9 Pflop/s and is one of the pan-European Exascale supercomputers. This is also the most powerful machine in Europe! Mic drop, Finland.
Fugaku
Japan’s Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, and it’s the first to hit number one using an ARM processor. You can find it at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. It hit 442 petaflops. Now that’s dynamite.
AMD’s Frontier
AMD’s Frontier uses 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs with AMD Instinct 250X accelerators and Slingshot-11 connectivity in the HPE Cray EX architecture. It is operated by the United States Department of Energy in Tennessee. But the reason it’s at the top is that it achieved 1,102 Exaflop/s, making it the first true Exascale machine. Smooth as Butter.
A lot of blood, sweat and tears poured into these machines, so the people who created them are extremely grateful. And imagine, one day we will have wearables more powerful than Frontier. Imagine what supercomputers would be like then? The best is yet to come.
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