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With each edition of the prestigious Top 500-list of fastest supercomputers becomes the slat considerably higher gelegd. Only already in the list almost two turns so much rack power is to be attained necessary as a year ago. In June 2005, 'only' 1.17 biljoen calculations were enough must get per second (teraflops), now a supercomputer 2.03 teraflops. The supersnelle ASTRON-system of the university of Groningen is pushed in the new classification to the twelfth position.

Intel and AMD are at an imposante advance busy. Not yet so long ago were both chip manufacturers marginal players in the high-performance computing-segment. Meanwhile Intel 301 supercomputers drives from the Top 500 at and AMD 81 rack monsters. The AMD Opteron do not sticks with that neat the Power-chips of IBM to the crown.

IBM remains source without the slightest doubt champion in the supercomputersegment. The manufacturer that also Intel-chips uses, furnishes 48.6 per cent of fastest rack monsters in the world.

Piglet Blue is also responsible for the building of four machines from the wereldtoptien, included the unapproachable BlueGene/L. This supercomputer of the American ministry of defense has a peak fortune of 280.6 teraflops. That is so exceptional many expected becomes will remain dominate that that BlueGene/L the coming editions of the Top 500.

The more greater part of the fastest computers figures for the Americas. Only also Europe invests want to be in supercomputers - there already in this edition less European supercomputers present then the previous time. source sensational is the fifth position for the brand-new rack monster of the French Commissariat a l' Energy Atomique (CEA) in Bruyeres-loan-Chatel, thanks to its peak fortune of 6.45 teraflops. The second fast European is the Bluegene-system of the Forschungszentrum in the German Juelich (5.57 teraflops).