TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Wiki:About

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Goal of the Top500 Encyclopedia is to collect information related to supercomputers. The collection is focused but not limited to systems listed in the Top500. Here it is the list of information we are trying to provide:

I. Pocessors:

  • Name(s) and Code-names
  • Manufacturers
  • Processor Generation
  • Model(s)
  • Time of manufacture (from-to)
  • Process-technology and resolution
  • Chip-sets and co-processors available
  • Transistor-count
  • Chip-area
  • pin-counts
  • Socket-description
  • Frequency ranges
  • Voltages
  • Energy consumption
  • Watt
  • Supported address-length
  • Floating-Point formats
  • Number of cores
  • Cache structure
  • L1 on chip/off chip cache
  • L2 on chip/off chip cache
  • # of floating point units / integer units / load-store units etc ...

II. Systems:

  • Names and code-names
  • Manufacturers and resellers
  • Time of manufacture
  • # of systems sold
  • Architectural description
  • # of processors
  • Processors types and frequencies
  • Memory structure (shared, distributed, flat, virtual shared ...)
  • Technology ( SRAM, DRAM, DDR,...) and sizes
  • Interconnect type and speed
  • Supported external network interfaces
  • Power-consumption
  • Cooling-type (air, water etc)
  • Floorspace requirement
  • Integrated disk?
  • SSD (Solid State Device) or other disk-buffer technologies
  • OS
  • How many processors per OS-Image
  • Important Libraries and software
  • Important Benchmark and Application performance results
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