DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Fujitsu / Control Data Corporation / Hewlett-Packard / Los Alamos National Laboratory / IBM New York / LBNL Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Semiconductor Company / NEC / Computational Science National Aerospace Laboratory / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / ZDF / NNSA/Sandia USA / 1st TOP500 List / AMD / IBM Thomas Watson USA / HewlettPackard / Dell / NERSC/LBNL USA / Sun Microsystems / Manufacturer Cray Inc. / Cray Inc. / Hitachi / Sandia National Laboratories / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Computational Research Laboratories / Earth Simulator Center National Aerospace Laboratory / Ames / DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / Tata Sons Ltd. / Intel / Microsoft / Cray Research / /
Continent
Europe / Asia / /
Country
France / Japan / Korea / United Kingdom / China / India / Germany / Sweden / United States / /
Currency
BSD / /
Event
Reorganization / Product Release / /
Facility
IBM Watson Research Center / HPC arena / University of Tokyo Japan / Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute / University of Stuttgart Germany / Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel / University of Tennessee / University of Mannheim / University of Mannheim/Germany / National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center / Ames Research Center/NAS University of Tokyo NERSC/LBNL / Mannheim University / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
lower-priced computing platform / performance computing / non-vector supercomputer manufacturer / owned subsidiary / technology advances / low-power systems / entry level vector computer systems / pure vector computing / parallel systems / defense applications / internal system interconnect technology / body area networks / cluster systems / scalar systems / systems / computing / few systems / vector computer systems / ubiquitous interconnected networks / computer systems / chess chips / web services / /
NaturalFeature
Blue Mountain / Yorktown Heights / /
OperatingSystem
UNIX / BSD / Microsoft Windows / Mac OS / Linux / /
Organization
University of Tokyo / Mannheim University / National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center / National Nuclear Security Administration / University of Mannheim & Prometeus GmbH / New Mexico Computing Applications Center / Department of Energy / Naval Oceanographic Office / University of Tennessee / Swedish Government Agency / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / /
Person
Horst Simon / Erich Strohmaier / Garry Kasparov / Hans Werner Meuer / Jack Dongarra / Linpack / Nina Ruge / /
Position
chess player / producer / niche player / author / TV journalist / leader / clear market leader / dominant market leader / Y-MP / fourth author / /
The TOP500 Project: Lessons Learned in Fifteen Years of Experience