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INSIGHT<br />
Whither<br />
Supercomputing?<br />
The state of global supercomputing in five charts<br />
By CIO&Leader<br />
A<br />
Every six months—in May and November<br />
every year—Top500.org, a site tracking<br />
supercomputers, comes out with the list of the<br />
world’s 500 fastest. The list provides data on<br />
the sites where they are hosted, their theoretical<br />
and achieved performance, their chitecture,<br />
their manufacturers, and a number of<br />
other data points.<br />
Analysis of the Top500.org data provides<br />
excellent insight into the state of supercomputing<br />
globally at any point of time.<br />
The insights presented here are based on the<br />
data presented in the lasts—November <strong>2017</strong>—<br />
list that also happens to be the 50th list since<br />
its beginning.<br />
Our insights are drawn from analysis of<br />
the Top500.org data for last 10 years—From<br />
November 2007 to November <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
20 CIO&LEADER | <strong>December</strong> <strong>2017</strong>