Australia's supercomputer ranking slipping

17.11.2009

While IBM systems dominated the top 10 with four entries in the most recent list, a Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US regained the top spot from the IBM Roadrunner system at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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For the first time China entered the Top 10 at number five with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.

Hewlett-Packard led in the number of systems on the list, with 210 supercomputers or 42 percent, compared with 185 for IBM.