Prometheus ranked 49th on the world’s list of most powerful computers

The ranking list of the world's most powerful computer systems is published twice a year (www.top500.org). Prometheus entered the list for the first time exceeding other supercomputers in Poland. It is also worth mentioning that Zeus, another ACC Cyfronet AGH UST supercomputer and long-time leader among Polish supercomputers, is ranked 270th on the list:

49 - Prometheus, ACC AGH UST
128 - TASK, Gdańsk University of Technology
137 - WCSS, Wrocław University of Technology
157 - NCBJ, Świerk
270 - Zeus, ACC AGH UST
380 - Cent, University of Warsaw
418 - ICM, University of Warsaw

China's Tianhe-2 (Milky way-2) still remains the world's fastest supercomputer ever built with its computing performance exceeding 54.9 petaflops. Supercomputers from the USA dominate the TOP500 list (233 units, 46%). Next come Japan (39 units, 8%), China (37 units, 7%), Germany (37 units, 1%), and the United Kingdom (31 units, 6%). Poland is ranked 9th on the list (7 units, 1%).

Prometheus was built by Hewlett-Packard (in accordance with the specifications supplied by Cyfronet experts) from over 1700 servers of HP Apollo 8000 platform, connected by super-fast Infiniband network with 56 Gbit/s bandwidth. The machine has over 41 thousand cores and over 215 TB of operational memory in the DDR4 technology; it has two file systems with a total capacity of 10 PB and access speed of 150 GB/s. The computer performance of the new Polish supercomputer, which began its operations on 27th April 2015, is almost 1.7 petaflops.

The scope of research undertaken with the help of Zeus, and since recently also with the help of Prometheus, is very wide indeed. the ACC Cyfronet AGH UST supercomputers are used in research and calculations concerning, among others: spatial structure of proteins, nanostructure of modern semi-conductors, analyses related to changing galaxies in wide range of radiation, as well as complex simulations performed on financial markets. In the year 2014 alone nearly 8 million operations were conducted with the total computing-time length of nearly 13,000 years.

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