Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can't Bend Performance Up To The Moore's Law Line
The Next Platform, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
It is also the 65th compilation of the Top 500 supercomputer rankings, which was started way back in 1993, which certifies the peak theoretical performance and sustained performance of each machine ranked on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) parallel processing benchmark test.
Over the decades, when the Top 500 list came out each June with ISC in Germany and each November with the SuperComputing (SC) conference in the United States, we did exactly what you did: We looked for the new machines on the list and tried to see how each new machine and its architecture stacked up to its rivals and alternatives.