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Everything about TOP500

Database project devoted to the ranking of computers

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November. The project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing and bases rankings on HPL benchmarks, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: TOP500A 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Knowledge Innovation Effect of University Computing Power in China: Evidence from the top500 SupercomputersInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Top 500 Pharmacy Drug Cards 2022EditionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The TOP500 List and Progress in High-Performance ComputingCited 48 times
  5. Go sideways: Petascale computingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: High-performance computingA closely related topic

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