Menu

TOP500

@HPCpodcast-106: TOP500 at SC25 Conference

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.

@HPCpodcast-102: TOP500 at ISC25 Conference

The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference, with a new addition to the top 10. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis as they go over the details, key takeawats, how continents, companies, and architectures fair, and cover the full suite of benchmarks: HPL, Green500, HPCG, HPL-MxP (AI), IO500, and MLPerf.

@HPCpodcast-93: TOP500 at SC24 Conference

SC24 is off to a great start with over 17,000 attendees, 480 exhibitors from 29 countries, and new TOP500 list that features a new champion! “The new El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, U.S.A., has debuted as the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.742 EFlop/s.” Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new list. As usual, they go over notable additions, performance efficiency, power efficiency in the Green500 list, the difficult HPCG benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance.

@HPCpodcast-84: TOP500 at ISC24 Conference

The new TOP500 at ISC24 conference is here with a new addition to the Exaflop Club, a new HPL-MxP (AI) champion, new top three in Green500, and also a look at HPCG, the difficult benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis.

@HPCpodcast-75: Rick Stevens, Mike Papka – Argonne National Lab (ANL)

As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Lab for a wide ranging discussion.  In addition to an update on the Aurora supercomputer and TOP500, we also discuss the need and challenged of building a national exascale capability, developing teams and bench strength, the risks and opportunities of AI for science and society, the trend towards integrated research infrastructure (IRI), and what’s next for the exascale initiative.

@HPCpodcast-43: TOP500 at SC22

The 60th edition of the TOP500 list is here, reresenting 30 years of systematic data on the highest performing computer architecture and configurations. We look at the highlights of what changed and what can be expected to change in systems, technologies, and geographies.

@HPCpodcast-23: ACM Turing Award Winner Jack Dongarra

We cover the Turing Award, TOP500, the state of HPC benchmarks, China’s Exascale systems, and future directions in algorithms. We also talk about future of supercomputing and AI systems, and discuss proliferation of new architectures. This is another episode you’d want to listen to more than once!

@HPCpodcast-2: TOP500 at SC21

TOP500 at SC21 was highly anticipated but failed to ignite. Rumored high-end systems opted not to play while entering the conversation anyway.  However, the list is about more than the TOP10 or whether there are systems that should be there and those that should not. Looking at the whole list, we saw a few surprises.

Benchmarks, Schmenchmarks: Big Iron Data and the November 2015 TOP500

There has been much discussion in recent years as to the continued relevance of the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark as a valid measure of the performance of the world’s most capable machines, with some supercomputing sites opting out of the TOP500 completely such as National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois […]