{"470781":{"#nid":"470781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Latest Graph500 Ranking of Fastest Supercomputers Released by Leading Universities at Supercomputing \u201915","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Tuesday, Nov. 17 \u2013\u003C\/strong\u003E The 11th Graph500 list was released today at the Supercomputing 2015 conference (SC\u201915), with Japan\u2019s K-Computer maintaining its top spot for the second consecutive time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFujitsu, IBM and China\u2019s National University of Defense Technology dominated the top 10, with the BlueGene\/Q architecture holding eight of the top 10 positions.\u0026nbsp; Other notable entries are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELargest Problem: DOE\/NNSA\/LANL Sequoia at Scale 41\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBest single node performance: Institute of Statistical Mathematics ismuv2k (SGI UV 2000) ranking #40 on the list with 175 GE\/s\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELargest single node problem: UV 2000 (#79), 19.6 GE\/s\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHighest Performance with High Memory Utilization: TitanXforsite (#46), 132 GE\/s\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Graph500 ranks the performance of more than 200 of the world\u0027s most powerful supercomputers, which are used to analyze \u201cbig data\u201d for cybersecurity, medical informatics, social networks and other scientific fields. The list is released twice each year to coincide with top high-performance computer (HPC) conferences, and it is the dominant international benchmark for analytics platforms. The Graph500 is compiled by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame and Boise State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s about the data movement,\u201d said Richard Murphy, director of advanced computing solutions pathfinding at Micron Technology Inc. and affiliated faculty at Boise State University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSupercomputers are built according to the jobs they will execute, and the bottleneck for analytics codes is often memory bandwidth rather than peak floating point capability,\u201d said David Bader, professor and chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Computational Science and Engineering in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Graph500 executive committee also announced on Tuesday a major new initiative in analytics benchmarking\u2014a new streaming analytics benchmark and an infrastructure to enable the incubation of new analytics benchmarks from the community. The effort will formalize its comparative methodology to begin the process of creating predictive analytics that map real application performance to benchmark measurements. The group believes this community-driven approach is essential to advancing the state of the art in data-intensive platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA community-driven approach is essential to any benchmarking process,\u201d said Jack Dongarra, professor at the University of Tennessee and creator of the Linpack Benchmark. \u201cWe need a set of metrics for the evaluation of any HPC system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf the upcoming advances, Peter Kogge of the University of Notre Dame says, \u201cJust as we have learned a lot about dense regular computations from the Top500, the Graph500 has generated a knowledge on irregular structures. The upcoming additions to the Graph500 benchmark set should continue fostering such advances.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next Graph500 list will be released in June 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"he 11th Graph500 list was released today at the Supercomputing 2015 conference (SC\u201915), with Japan\u2019s K-Computer maintaining its top spot for the second consecutive time."}],"uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-11-17 14:41:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:03","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"470771":{"id":"470771","type":"image","title":"graph500","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"graph500","file":{"fid":"203899","name":"graph500.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/graph500_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/graph500_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":68551,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/graph500_0.png?itok=OgayW55H"}}},"media_ids":["470771"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13255","name":"david bader"},{"id":"148311","name":"Graph500"},{"id":"168427","name":"School of Computational Science \u0026 Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETara La Bouff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.769.5408\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}