New Ranking of Supercomputers Released: El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora Top the List

Researchers involved in the TOP500 project have released the 65th ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. This edition features a compilation of 500 clusters, examining their computational capabilities, technical specifications, and other relevant data.

The top three positions in the ranking are occupied by supercomputers from the United States. Additionally, the list of the ten most powerful clusters includes systems from Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, and Switzerland:

**Computer**

**Processor**

**Core Count***

**Rmax**

**OS**

**Country**

El Capitan

AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz

11,039,616

1742 PFlop/s

TOSS

USA

Frontier

AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz

9,066,176

1353 PFlop/s

HPE Cray OS

USA

Aurora

Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz

9,264,128

1012 PFlop/s

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4

USA

JUPITER Booster

GH Superchip 72C 3GHz

4,801,344

793.4 PFlop/s

RedHat Enterprise Linux

Germany

Eagle

Xeon Platinum 8480C 48C 2GHz

2,073,600

561.2 PFlop/s

Ubuntu 22.04

USA

HPC6

AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz

3,143,520

477.9 PFlop/s

RHEL 8.9

Italy

Supercomputer Fugaku

A64FX 48C 2.2GHz

7,630,848

442.01 PFlop/s

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Japan

Alps

NVIDIA Grace 72C 3.1GHz

2,121,600

434.9 PFlop/s

HPE Cray OS

Switzerland

LUMI

AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz

2,752,704

379.7 PFlop/s

HPE Cray OS

Finland

Leonardo

Xeon Platinum 8358 32C 2.6GHz

1,824,768

241.2 PFlop/s

Linux (distribution unknown)

Italy

Russian supercomputers have also made their way into the ranking:

**Rank**

**Computer**

**Processor**

**Core Count***

**Rmax**

**OS**

**Company**

75

Chervonenkis

AMD EPYC 7702 64C 2GHz

193,440

21.53 PFlop/s

Ubuntu 16.04

Yandex

102

Galushkin

AMD EPYC 7702 64C 2GHz

134,912

16.02 PFlop/s

Ubuntu 16.04

Yandex

120

Lyapunov

AMD EPYC 7662 64C 2GHz

130,944

12.81 PFlop/s

Ubuntu 16.04

Yandex

125

Christofari Neo

AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz

98,208

11.95 PFlop/s

Nvidia DGX OS 5

SberCloud

201

Christofari

Xeon Platinum 8168 24C 2.7GHz

99,600

6.67 PFlop/s

Ubuntu 18.04.01

SberCloud

495

Lomonosov 2

Xeon E5-2697v3 14C 2.6GHz

64,384

2.48 PFlop/s

Linux (distribution unknown)

MSU Scientific Computing Center

Key trends:

The United States leads the way with the highest number of clusters (175 systems). Following are China (47), Germany (41), Japan (39), France (25), Italy (17), South Korea (15), Canada (13), the UK (13), and Brazil (9). Russia holds the 17th position globally with six clusters.

Furthermore, the U.S. accounts for 48.4% of all supercomputer computational power worldwide. Japan comes next (8.9%), followed by Germany (8.6%), Italy (6.3%), and the UK (2.9%). Russia also ranks 17th.

Lenovo is the leading manufacturer of clusters, making up 27.2%. This is followed by HPE (26.2%), EVIDEN (11%), DELL (8.2%), Nvidia (5.4%), and Fujitsu (3.4%).

All 500 supercomputers in the ranking run on Linux. The five most popular distributions are CentOS (6.6%), HPE Cray OS (6.4%), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4.8%), Cray Linux Environment (3.4%), and Ubuntu 22.04 (2.6%). Notably, one-third of clusters have an unknown distribution.

***** total core count for both CPU and GPU
** peak performance of the supercomputer in the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark