Without counting secret machines, this is the state of supercomputing in the world: The United States’ government, companies and universities have more computing power than the rest of the world combined. Each square within each country represents one supercomputer.
The first position goes to the 1.75-petaflop-per-second Cray’s Jaguar, housed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. [Mashable]
Andrew
June 2, 2010 at 7:58 AM
Wow Check out NZ, I wonder where Aus is on the scale?
Report PermalinkStevoTheDevo
June 2, 2010 at 8:01 AM
Is Weta responsible for NZ’s ranking?
Report PermalinkSays a lot about Australia’s commitment to R&D that we don’t rate a mention.
Brian
June 2, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Great chart! How did you do it? Can you share the link to the chart generator? That’d be great! Thanks, B
Report Permalinkboc
June 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM
I wouldn’t be surprised if some politician decided it was a good idea for us to outsource our supercomputing.
New Zealand is a surprise. Good on them.
Report PermalinkStirling
June 2, 2010 at 5:33 PM
I checked the source link from BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm
The NZ ranking is almost exclusively WETA (5 out of 6). NZ has 1 computer with 26.4 T FLOPS ranked 434, Australia has 1 with 49.59 T FLOPS ranked 113, so we still win… Kind of impressive for one company in NZ to hold 5 top 500 supercomputers and single handily drag NZ up there on the chart…
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