10. Roadrunner, United States
Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico performs at 1.04 petaflop/s.
9. Tera 100, France
Tera 100 at the CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) in France performs at 1.05 petaflop/s.
8. Hopper, United States
The Hopper supercomputer, located at DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in California, is ranked eighth with 1.054 petaflop/s performances.
7. Pleiades, United States
Pleiades, located at NASA‘s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, allows over 1,000 active users around the country advance knowledge about the Earth, solar system and the universe. Pleiades helps meet computing needs of NASA‘s aeronautics projects and other space operations. It has a performance at 1.09 petaflop/s.
6. Cielo, United States
The Cielo supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico performs at 1.11 petaflop/s.
5. Tsubame 2.0, Japan
Tsubame 2.0 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is fifth most fast supercomputer in the world with 1.19 petaflop/s performance.
4. Nebulae, China
The Nebulae supercomputer at China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzen is ranked fouth with 1.27 petaflop/s performance.
3. Jaguar, United States
The Jaguar, a Cray supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is ranked No. 3 with 1.75 petaflop/s.
2. Tianhe-1A, China
The Chinese supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, performs at 2.6 petaflop/s.
1. K Computer, Japan
Built by Fujitsu, the Japanese supercomputer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, is capable of performing more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s). “The K Computer is also more powerful than the next five systems on the list combined and also one of the most energy-efficient systems on the list.”