TOP500: IBM Dominates Global Supercomputing

In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released today at the 20th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2005) in Heidelberg Germany.
As predicted several years ago by the research team behind the TOP500 listing, only systems exceeding the 1 TFlop/s mark on the Linpack were qualified to enter the list this time. The system in No. 500 spot reached 1.166 TFlop/s.
IBM's Blue Gene/L tops the list with a sustained performance of 136.8 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second.