10 Fastest Supercomputers In The World

Frontier:

Frontier, the new number 1, is built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, USA. 

Fugaku:

Fugaku, which previously held the top spot, is installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. It is three times faster than the next supercomputer in the top 10. 

LUMI:

LUMI is another HPE system and the new number 3, crunching the numbers in Finland. 

Summit:

Summit, an IBM-built supercomputer, is also at ORNL in Tennessee. Summit is used to tackle climate change, predict extreme weather and understand the genetic factors that influence opioid addiction. 

Sierra:

Another US entry is Sierra, a system installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which is used for testing and maintaining the reliability of nuclear weapons. 

Sunway TaihuLight:

China’s highest entry is the Sunway TaihuLight, a system developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology and installed in Wuxi, Jiangsu. 

Perlmutter:

Perlmutter is another top 10 entry based on HPE technology. 

Selene:

Selene is a supercomputer currently running at AI multinational NVIDIA in the US. 

Tianhe-2A:

Tianhe-2A is a system developed by China’s National University of Defence Technology and installed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou. 

Adastra:

France’s Adastra is the second-fastest system in Europe and has been built using HPE and AMD technology. 

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