The Oscars of the global supercomputing industry, the SC2018 Global Supercomputing Conference, were held in Dallas. During the conference, the Global Top 500 Supercomputing Cluster Rankings were announced. The Taiyi high-performance supercomputer cluster that was installed by the Science and Engineering Computing Center of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in October ranked 1st among domestic universities (excluding defense and military colleges). It also ranked 127th in the world.
The Top 500 list is a globally recognized list of installed super-computing clusters and first started ranking them in 1993. US and German super-computer experts jointly comply the rankings, which are published twice a year, in June and November. The experts use the Linpack program to benchmark performance test each super-computing cluster. The top 500 highest performing computing clusters are listed and published at www.top500.org
SUSTech’s “Taiyi” super-computing cluster is composed of 32,400 Intel Xeon computing cores. The theoretical computing performance is 2500 teraFLOPS, with measured performance of 1687 teraFLOPS. Commissioning of the system and software installation is in progress, and “Taiyi” is expected to be in service by the end of the year.
