The Top 10 supercomputers list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Of the Top 10, five are in the United States and the others are in China, Japan, France, and Germany.

 

   Cielo - Cray XE6 8-core 2.4 GHz

 

System Name: Cielo

City: Los Alamos

State: New Mexico

Country: United States

Site: DOE/NNSA/LANL/SNL

System Family: Cray XE

System Model: Cray XE6 Computer Cray XE6 8-core 2.4 GHz

Vendor: Cray Inc.

Application area: Research

Installation Year: 2010

Operating System: Linux

Interconnect: Custom

Processor: AMD x86_64 Opteron 8 Core 2400 MHz (9.6 GFlops)