TOP500
Ranked list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, published twice a year using the LINPACK benchmark.
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All 15 articles →ORNL's first Genesis Mission supercomputer misses the top ten even at perfect Linpack efficiency. No US system has published the FP64 to challenge China's LineShine.
MHPCC cut Makau's ribbon in August, months after the machine began carrying pioneer workloads. A system 13 times its size arrives at the same center this year.
Simulation still fills the world's research supercomputers. Funding and vendor roadmaps have tilted to AI, and some practitioners feel pressure to pitch their machines that way.
Time to first token is the AI industry's favorite candidate for era-defining metric. It is a real whole-stack signal, not a stand-in for business success.