I checked it out. Japan is way out in front of the rest of the pack with an 8.0 petaflop system. In second place is China with a 2.6 PF system. The USA's top winner puts out only 1.75 PF, yet the article states "The U.S. is tops in petaflop/s with five systems performing at that level; Japan and China have two each, and France has one." The total PF of all Japanese systems is 9.19. The USA's total for all 5 of their systems in the top 10 is 6.048 PF. Somehow this translates into being the tops. The only way the USA is tops is in the total number of different systems, which is 5. This is an interesting journalistic device. If you look hard enough, you can always find some way to categorize your own contestant(s) as the winner(s).
Nevertheless, that is a whollottaflops... Bill Fairchild -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Check out June 2011 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites _June 2011 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites_ (http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/06) That's a whollottaflops... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
