Star of Arkansas
We are pleased to announce that the Star of Arkansas is ranked 339 as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! The Star of Arkansas has a sustained performance of 10.75Teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) and joins only 33 other academic institutions in the United States on this list. Excluding national labs there are roughly 24 entries on this list from academic institutions in the United States.
The fastest computer in the world is Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This supercomputer is the first one to ever have a sustained performance of more than 1 Petaflops (1000 Teraflops). The performance of the #500 supercomputer is 9Teraflops.
The newest list was published today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. For more information please visit http://www.top500.org/
