Peta Supercomputers: Peak, LINPACK, and HPCG

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Top500 Computer Manufacturer Peak LINPACK HPCG HPCG/Peak
Rank Name/Location [TFlop/s] [TFlop/s] [TFlop/s] [%]
61 Saturn Nvidia 4897 3707 67.4 1.38
72 Jean Zay HPE 4867 3054 52.6 1.08
65 HPC2 IBM 4605 3188 48.9 1.06
74 Tetralith ClusterVision 4335 2969 65.2 1.50
49 ECMWF Cray 4249 3945 65.5 1.54
50 ECMWF Cray 4249 3945 65.5 1.54
71 Circe Nvidia 4241 3057 199.2 4.70
73 Mistral Bull 3963 3011 44.1 1.11
90 Occigen2 Bull 3570 2495 45.5 1.27
66 SORA-MA Fujitsu 3481 3157 110.2 3.17

The data of the previous page are given in a tabular form.

The exceptional efficiency of Circe (Nvidia) seems to be an error in the list Top500: Circe (71th in Top500, June 2019) is mentioned in Nvidia Circe Reference Architecture page as "The Circe supercomputer ... is now part of the NVIDIA DGX SATURNV supercomputer". The latter system is 22nd in Top500, June 2019, and the HPCG performance value (the column R of the Top500 list) is 199.196 TFlop/s both for the DGX SuperPOD (SATURNV) and Circe, which suggests that the HPCG data should not be attributed to Circe (J. Dongarra asked for comments). The HPCG efficiency of the DGX SuperPOD (11209.114 TFlop/s peak, 199.196 TFlop/s HPCG) is 1.78 %, i.e., well in the usual range 1.5-2 %.

Thus, the only exceptional value in the present list exhibits SORA-MA of Fujitsu with processors SPARC64 XIfx; the Fujitsu SPARC line of processors is known for a good (low) ratio of the peak performance and the memory bandwidth giving good HPCG efficiency (the earlier members of the SPARC64 line are used in K-computer that has the top HPCG efficiency 5.34 % among all Top500 supercomputers).