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A little post that I posted in my IBM internal blog.

Ok, everyone has heard about the Top500 list, a twice year list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful supercomputers systems of the world. The first list is commonly announced during the International SuperComputing Conference – ISC (June), and the second during the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis – SC (November).

The first position of the last list (released on November 12th, 2007) is the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that was installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The No. 2 is from IBM too, a BlueGene/P system installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ). From the Top10, there are four IBM’s systems, and 46.6% of the 500 systems are IBM.

And about the Green500 list, who’s know it? The Green500 provides a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and serve as a complementary view to the Top500 list. The first list was announced on November 15th, 2007 at SC07, and we can see the rank here.

But why is it important to IBM? Because the numbers!! From the first until the 27th position, only the No. 6 is not from IBM. The first five systems are Blue Gene/P Solution, and from the No. 7 until the No. 27 they are eServer Blue Gene Solutions.

This is a clear result of the green concern that IBM is involved.